Description

Background:
The CHIP is a 45-item instrument designed to measure parents’ response to management of family life when they have a child who is seriously and/or chronically ill. Items for the CHIP were developed by use of items from previous research in family stress and from theory from several areas pertinent to families and health.

Developers:
Hamilton I. McCubbin, Marilyn A. McCubbin, Joan M. Patterson, A. Elizabeth Cauble, Lance R. Wilson, and Warren Warwick

Copyright:
Publisher: National Council of Family Relations

References:
McCubbin, H. I., McCubbin, M. A., Patterson, J. M., Cauble, A. E., Wilson, L. R., and Warwick, W. (1983). CHIP-Coping Health Inventory for Parents: An Assessment of Parental Coping Patterns in the Care of the Chronically Ill Child. Journal of Marriage and Family, May, 359-370.

Reliability:
Internal consistency: Cronbach alpha (Subscale 1) = 0.79; Cronbach alpha (Subscale 2) = 0.79; Cronbach alpha (Subscale 3) = 0.71 (McCubbin et al., 1983).

Protective:
Coping