TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing an indigenous measure of overall health and well-being
T2 - The Wicozani instrument
AU - Peters, Heather J.
AU - Peterson, Teresa R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - A Native community developed the Wicozani Instrument, a 9-item self-report measure, to assess overall health and well-being from an Indigenous epistemology. The Wicozani Instrument measures mental, physical, and spiritual health and their importance to an individual's quality of life. The instrument's validity and reliability was examined through two studies. Study 1 utilized standardized measures from Native (i.e., Awareness of Connectedness Scale) and Western (i.e., Psychological Sense of School Membership and Suicide Ideation Questionnaire) epistemologies with Native and non-Native youth. Study 2 utilized a community created measure (i.e., Indigenous Healing Strategies Scale) with Dakota women. Results suggest the Wicozani Instrument is valid and reliable. The development of an Indigenous measure of overall health and well-being addresses Western atomistic frameworks, which often perpetuate the perception of Native identity as a risk factor for poor health, and works to disrupt the Cycle of Native Health Disparities.
AB - A Native community developed the Wicozani Instrument, a 9-item self-report measure, to assess overall health and well-being from an Indigenous epistemology. The Wicozani Instrument measures mental, physical, and spiritual health and their importance to an individual's quality of life. The instrument's validity and reliability was examined through two studies. Study 1 utilized standardized measures from Native (i.e., Awareness of Connectedness Scale) and Western (i.e., Psychological Sense of School Membership and Suicide Ideation Questionnaire) epistemologies with Native and non-Native youth. Study 2 utilized a community created measure (i.e., Indigenous Healing Strategies Scale) with Dakota women. Results suggest the Wicozani Instrument is valid and reliable. The development of an Indigenous measure of overall health and well-being addresses Western atomistic frameworks, which often perpetuate the perception of Native identity as a risk factor for poor health, and works to disrupt the Cycle of Native Health Disparities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072621089&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85072621089&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5820/aian.2602.2019.96
DO - 10.5820/aian.2602.2019.96
M3 - Article
C2 - 31550380
AN - SCOPUS:85072621089
SN - 0893-5394
VL - 26
SP - 96
EP - 122
JO - American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
JF - American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
IS - 2
ER -
