Table 1 Outcomes, measures, and instruments

€ Primary Outcomes €

Linkages between low-income families and established services in their communities

Average number of times the family linked to services

Family Services Inventory (FSI)

Quality of life

Preference based measures

Visual Analogue Scale (EQ VAS) Australian Quality of Life (AQoL)

€ Secondary Outcomes €

Characteristics of linkages between families and services

Type of service, satisfaction

FSI

Costs to service systems

Costs of services linked to

FSI

Adult physical health

General health status

Single general health item from National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), EQ-5D

Adult psychosocial health

Somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, self-esteem

Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R), Self-Esteem Inventory

Linkages to community

(a) Perceived social functions and provisions obtained from relationships with others; (b) social and civic participation; (c) barriers to participation; (d) neighbourliness

(a) Social Provision Scale; (b) items from the Health and Participation survey; (c) Left Out survey; (d) items from NLSCY

Child physical health

General health status, chronic conditions, injuries, nutrition, sleep pattern, risk behavior

40 items from NLSCY

Child psychosocial health

Socio-emotional development, personality, behavioral problems, attitudes, mental health

Behavioral Assessment System for Children (BASC)

Child Achievement

Spelling, Arithmetic, Reading, Receptive Vocabulary

Wide Range Achievement Test; Peabody Pictorial Vocabulary III

Family Functioning

(a) Problem solving & communication skills, (b) parenting,

McMaster Family Assessment device

Socio-demographics

Ethnicity, immigration status, education, occupation, family type, level of income, source of income, security of housing, number of children, neighbourhood

Items from NLSCY