Description

Neighborhood Safety, Perception of Neighborhood, Neighborhood Violence

Background:

These are questions that have been used in various CCH assessments. Assessments will either include all of the questions or a selected portion. These questions do not represent a validated scale, but these questions were used in several CCH studies as a composite score. Reported alpha values range from 0.88-0.91.

Developers:

Center for Community Health, Semel Institute-Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) of the University of California, Los Angeles

References:

Wu, N., Lester, P., Jiang, L., Weiss, R., Slocum, S.L., and Rotheram-Borus, M.J. (2005). Problematic Substance Use among Adolescents in HIV-Affected Families. Center for Community Health, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Wu, N., Lester, P., Jiang, L., Weiss, R., Slocum, S.L., and Rotheram-Borus, M.J. (2005). Problematic Substance Use among Adolescents in HIV-Affected Families. Under review.