Instrument

This survey is designed to assess patient-families’ legal needs. It was developed by and is currently being piloted by the Washington Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Seattle Children’s Hospital. This survey is also available in English in the resource library.

A series of questions developed by the Cincinnati Health Law Partnership that providers can ask patients to determine social factors affecting their health and to screen for medical-legal partnership services.

A Spanish language questionnaire developed as a screening tool to identify families who might benefit from the services of a medical-legal partnership. This questionnaire can also be used in formative evaluation, providing a means for quickly assessing the legal needs present in a particular setting (community or medical clinic) in which the creation of a new medical-legal partnership is planned.

It was written and validated by David Keller and Nathan Jones of the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts (FACM). Please acknowledge the authors if you choose to use this instrument.

Pre-training survey administered to residents at John Hopkins University to gauge advocacy knowledge and gather input on Project HEAL.

Post-training assessments are important in order to determine the effectiveness of trainings and how best to modify them for future use.  This survey is administered to frontline healthcare providers after they attend a three-hour Advocacy Boot Camp session hosted by MLP | Boston.

Pre-training assessments are important in order to determine the effectiveness of trainings and how best to modify them for future use. This survey is administered to frontline healthcare providers before they attend a three-hour Advocacy Boot Camp session hosted by MLP | Boston.

An instrument used by Tucson Family Advocacy Program to measure a client’s perceived stress before and after meeting with the legal team.

With permission from the author, the Tucson Family Advocacy Program modified the MYCAW survey and used it an evaluation study on patient stress and wellbeing.

This survey is designed to assess patient-families’ legal needs.  It was developed by and is currently being piloted by the Washington Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Seattle Children’s Hospital.   This survey is also available in Spanish.

The first part of the study was this self-administered survey offered to all adults in the waiting area who are the parent or guardian of a child being seen as a patient in the department. Those who completed the self-administered survey were invited to participate in a follow-up telephone interview in which subjects are asked to respond to questions related to the social and legal concerns identified in the self-administered survey.