Family Crisis-Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales

The Family Crisis-Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales, F-COPES (11), is a self-assessment scale used to measure the levels of family problem-solving and coping, and is completed by family members. Wang et al. (38) revised the scale into a Chinese version, which includes five dimensions: getting support (including support from family, relatives, friends, and neighbors), positive cognition, seeking support from spirit and belief, seeking social support (including support from other families, social institutions, doctors, and professionals), negative cognition, and avoidance. On this scale, participants were asked to report whether they agreed (from 1 = not at all true to 5 = strongly agree) to applying the family problem-solving and coping behaviors described for each item. The score range is 27–135. A higher score indicates a higher level of family problem-solving and coping. Based on the results of the current study, the internal consistency coefficient was 0.842.