The home scale: The influence of socioeconomic status on the evaluation of the home environment Article

Lotas, M, Penticuff, J, Medoff-Cooper, B et al. (1992). The home scale: The influence of socioeconomic status on the evaluation of the home environment . Nursing Research, 41(6), 338-341.

cited authors

  • Lotas, M; Penticuff, J; Medoff-Cooper, B; Brooten, D; Brown, L

abstract

  • Caldwell’s Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) was developed to provide specific and sensitive information about the home and maternal environment as a stimulus to infant learning and development. The use of the HOME scale was examined in a sample of 118 middle-and lower-income mothers and their low-birth-weight (LBW) or very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. The analysis of data demonstrated limited variability in the HOME scale total scows within each income group, and income alone was found to account for 41% of the variance in the sample. These findings raise questions about the effectiveness of the HOME scale in making useful discriminations about family functioning within an income group. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.

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publication date

  • January 1, 1992

published in

start page

  • 338

end page

  • 341

volume

  • 41

issue

  • 6