Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Social Vulnerability Index for Use in the Dutch Context

Steven Bunt, Nardi Steverink, Melissa K. Andrew, Cees P. van der Schans and Hans Hobbelen
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Steven Bunt: Research Group in Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing, Hanze University Groningen, University of Applied Sciences, 9714 CA Groningen, The Netherlands
Nardi Steverink: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, 9712 TG Groningen, The Netherlands
Melissa K. Andrew: Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 2E1, Canada
Cees P. van der Schans: Research Group in Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing, Hanze University Groningen, University of Applied Sciences, 9714 CA Groningen, The Netherlands
Hans Hobbelen: Research Group in Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing, Hanze University Groningen, University of Applied Sciences, 9714 CA Groningen, The Netherlands

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: Being able to identify socially frail older adults is essential for designing interventions and policy and for the prediction of health outcomes, both on the level of individual older adults and of the population. The aim of the present study was to adapt the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to the Dutch language and culture for those purposes. A systematic cross-cultural adaptation of the initial Social Vulnerability Index was performed following five steps: initial translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, a Delphi procedure, and a test for face validity and feasibility. The main result of this study is a face-valid 32 item Dutch version of the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI-D) that is feasible in health care and social care settings. The SVI-D is a useful index to measure social frailty in Dutch-language countries and offers a broad, holistic quantification of older people’s social circumstances related to the risk of adverse health outcomes.

Keywords: social frailty; social vulnerability; frailty; index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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