TY - JOUR AU - Tadaka, Etsuko AU - Kono, Ayumi AU - Ito, Eriko AU - Kanaya, Yukiko AU - Dai, Yuka AU - Imamatsu, Yuki AU - Itoi, Waka PY - 2016 DA - 2016/11/28 TI - Development of a community’s self-efficacy scale for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people (Mimamori Scale) JO - BMC Public Health SP - 1198 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Among older people in developed countries, social isolation leading to solitary death has become a public health issue of vital importance. Such isolation could be prevented by monitoring at-risk individuals at the neighborhood level and by implementing supportive networks at the community level. However, a means of measuring community confidence in these measures has not been established. This study is aimed at developing the Community’s Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES; Mimamori scale in Japanese) for community members preventing social isolation among older people. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3857-4 DO - 10.1186/s12889-016-3857-4 ID - Tadaka2016 ER -