Description

Designed to collect locally relevant, contextual, quantitative data based on the Interplay Wellbeing Framework (culture, empowerment, community, education, work and health)

AI/AN Communities where the measure has been used

Aboriginal communities across Northern Territory and Western Australia (two remote, two very remote)

Demographics of AI/AN participants where the scale has been used

Aboriginal people, 15-34 years of age

Notes on adaptations or modifications

None mentioned

Modality and administration

In person computer survey using a survey software

Scoring

Survey questions rated 5 point Likert Scale, 0 (not at all), 4 (lots). Higher scores indicate higher levels of domain

Psychometric evidence

Cronbach’s alphas for each domain ranged from .76-.98

Citation(s)

Original:

  • Cairney S, Abbott T, Yamaguchi J. Study protocol: the Interplay Wellbeing Framework and methodology to assess wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote Australia. CRC-REP Working Paper CW024. Alice Springs: Ninti One Limited; 2015. http://www.nintione.com.au/ publication/crc-rep-0446.

Example of Measure Use:

  • Cairney, S., Abbott, T., Quinn, S., Yamaguchi, J., Wilson, B., & Wakerman, J. (2017). Interplay wellbeing framework: a collaborative methodology ‘bringing together stories and numbers’ to quantify Aboriginal cultural values in remote Australia. International journal for equity in health, 16(1), 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0563-5

Disclaimer: The included citations are examples we had access to and not the entirety of examples that exist.