Among other scales relevant to the study, the authors utilised the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL) – an instrument which measures social capital through its measuring of a person's interpersonal support.
Steve Wasko, the Detroit Public Schools spokesman, said 32 schools are on the evaluation list for closure next year.
Sense of belonging and tangible support were measured using two sub-scales of the interpersonal support evaluation list (38).
The Interpersonal Support Evaluation List [ 52] was too difficult to administer, and was therefore replaced by the MOS Social Support Survey [ 54].
The Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL) [ 31, 32] was used as a measure of perceived general social support across four domains (Appraisal, Belonging, Tangible help, and Self-esteem).
The Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL) is comprised of 30 statements designed to assess the perceived availability of five types of social resources [ 5].
Measures used in the study were background characteristics, Health-related Quality of Life (SF-36), the Impact of Event Scale (IES), General Self-efficacy and the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL).
The Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL), developed by Cohen et al. [ 52] and adapted by McColl and Skinner [ 53], measuring three types of support--instrumental (7 items), informational (6 items) and emotional (9 items) was used.
Although PBF has 10 indicators on HIV/AIDS in its evaluation list, the only substantial (and borderline significant) effect of PBF was on PMTCT, but not on ART or VCT.
Participants also completed self-report symptom rating scale, including Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [ 16], Interpersonal Support and Evaluation List-12 (ISEL-12) [ 17, 18], and Perceived Stress Scale-4 (PSS-4) [ 19, 20].
