A new version of the HBSC Family Affluence Scale - FAS III: Scottish Qualitative Findings from the International FAS Development Study

Jane E. K. Hartley (), Kate Levin () and Candace Currie ()
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Jane E. K. Hartley: University of Edinburgh
Kate Levin: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Candace Currie: CAHRU University of St Andrews

Child Indicators Research, 2016, vol. 9, issue 1, No 13, 233-245

Abstract: Abstract A critical review of the Family Affluence Scale (FAS) concluded that FAS II was no longer discriminatory within very rich or very poor countries, where a very high or a very low proportion of children were categorised as high FAS or low FAS respectively (Currie et al. 2008). The review concluded that a new version of FAS - FAS III - should be developed to take into account current trends in family consumption patterns across the European region, the US and Canada. In 2012, the FAS Development and Validation Study was conducted in eight countries - Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Scotland. This paper describes the Scottish qualitative findings from this study. The Scottish qualitative fieldwork comprising cognitive interviews and focus groups sampled from 11, 13 and 15 year-old participants from 18 of the most- and least- economically deprived schools. These qualitative results were used to inform the final FAS III recommendations.

Keywords: Health inequalities; Family affluence scale; Health behaviours; Qualitative research; Validation; Adolescents; Health indicators; Health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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