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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: Health Soc Care Community. 2019 Aug 25;27(6):1375–1387. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12830

TABLE 2.

Measurement tools (outcome measures) for social factors

Social theme Measurement tool
Social support
1. Increase in social contact 1. Self-report at 2 months follow-up
2. Number of social outings 2. Self-report
3. Reported size of social network 3. Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors (ISSB)
4. Social isolation 4. Lubben social network scale
Socioeconomic status
1. Income 1. Data from pre-existing database
2. Employment 2. Data from pre-existing database
3. Education and training 3. Data from pre-existing database
4. Barriers to housing 4. Data from pre-existing database
5. Neighbourhood crime rate (Thorne et al., 2016) 5. Data from pre-existing database
Living arrangement
1. Living arrangement/Institutionalisation 1. Self-report/Chart review