When It Is Used
Use it when the caregiver relationship context may affect parenting intervention participation, progress, or outcome evaluation.
Relationship Quality Index for Parenting Support Contexts
The Relationship Quality Index is a ready-to-send measure for practitioners when relationship quality may affect parenting intervention outcomes. It helps practitioners obtain an interpretable score for the relevant caregiver relationship and compare repeated scores over time.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
It captures fixed relationship quality item responses and produces a score with instrument-supported interpretation where available.
Important Limits
It does not provide relationship diagnosis, cause analysis, couples-treatment recommendations, safety determinations, or parenting outcome predictions.
Is the Relationship Quality Index configurable?
No. Practitioners select the measure and administration context, but item content, scoring, and interpretation labels are fixed by the instrument.
Can multiple respondents complete it?
Yes, if multiple respondents are used, the review must show whose responses produced each score and must not merge scores unless the instrument defines a combined method.
Can scores be trended?
Yes. Repeated scores can be compared only when the same scoring basis is used.