Social Support Scale for Family Caregivers of Elder Mexicans

Using exploratory and confirmatory analysis factor, was validated the Social Support Scale for Family Caregivers of Older Adults. 23 items with factor loadings >= 0.51, grouped into four factors it explain 63% of the variance of the construct, with Cronbach's alpha values >= 0.85; was shown that social support has a positive and significant causal relationship with material support (beta = 0.66), practical support (beta = 0.69), emotional support (beta = 0.6), and counseling support (beta = 0.81), the model fit values was >= 0.97. The validated scale can be applied together with other measures to assess needs faced by families to generate support actions aimed at adult-senior and caregiver.