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Toward a Cross-Cultural Perspective of Family Caregiving

Isela Luna

College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Cynthia K. Russell

Health Sciences Center, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN

Gloria Baca

College of Nursing, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Young Mi Lim

Department of Nursing, Kwandong University, #522 Naegok-dong, Kangreung, Kangwon-do, Korea

Sandra L. Cromwell

School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX

Esperanza Torres de Ardon

College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

This article is partofa symposium that explores the issues involved in developing cross-culturally equivalent conceptualizations and measures for studying family caregiving. The examples used are from the instrument development phase of an ongoing program of research designed to generate and test a theory that explains the quality of family caregivingforfrail elders at home. This article provides the backgroundfor the symposium by introducing the symposium's unifying theme: cross-cultural equivalence. The process described is based on the experiences of the cross-cultural research team and Berry's model for developing cross-culturally equivalent research.

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