APGAR Test in Ecuadorian People in Postmodern Context

The data collected through the APGAR test aimed to measure family functions and changes in a postmodern context. Over three years, this study has been conducted to 77 individuals, 71 of whom were adults while the remaining 6 were underage people. These participants belong to 37 families from different social strata in the city of Quito-Ecuador, which were selected through convenience and non-probabilistic sampling. The APGAR design used a modification of the work [1], extrapolated to the Ecuadorian context. The data has been collected, cleaned, and unified in a single file in a CSV structured format and without missing values. The participants’ personal information has been concealed to guarantee their identity remains anonymous. Additionally, those who participated in the project have given their consent for the use of their information for academic purposes, which include: scientific journals, presentations, and digital academic repositories. The structured data, within the file, has a distribution in the form of rows and columns. Each row (instance) represents an APGAR test executed on an individual, while the columns represent the different variables (attributes) of the dataset. Each APGAR test has metadata collected during the process. The metadata corresponding to the informative data of the individuals are located in attributes 1 to 7 of the dataset and their description is as follows. • Person_ID: Identifier of each individual who participated in the APGAR test. Discrete quantitative variable. • Year: Data collection year. Discrete quantitative variable. • Family_ID: Unique identifier of each family. Discrete quantitative variable. • Age: Participant age in years. Discrete quantitative variable. • Familiar_Rol: Self-identification of the role played by the individual in the family. Nominal qualitative variable with open categories. Seven different classes were identified: father, mother, son, daughter, nephew, grandmother, and stepfather. • Gender: Self-identification of the individual's gender. Nominal qualitative variable with open categories. Two classes were identified: male and female. • Location: Geographical location of the family home. Nominal qualitative variable with closed categories determined by the official zones that make up the metropolitan district of Quito. Nineteen classes were identified in total. In the Ecuadorian context, a person is of legal age if he has reached an age equal to or greater than 18 years. Therefore, in order to discern these two segments of subpopulations within the family, the design of two different question types for the APGAR tests was required. The Questions (Qi) for adults were: • Q1: I am satisfied with the help I receive from my family when I have a problem or need. • Q2: I am satisfied with the participation that my family gives me and allows me. • Q3: I am satisfied with how my family accepts and supports my desire to undertake new activities. • Q4: I am satisfied with how my family expresses affection and responds to my emotions, such as anger, sadness, love, etc. • Q5: I am satisfied with how we share in my family: a) time to be together, b) spaces in the house, c) money. The Questions (Qi) for underage people were: • Q1: When I am worried about anything, I can ask my family for help. • Q2: I like how my family talks and shares their problems with me. • Q3: I like how my family allows me to do the new things I want to do. • Q4: I like what my family does when I am happy, sad, angry, etc. • Q5: I like how my family and I spend time together. On the other hand, for each question, 5 possible answers were designed with different weights based on a linear symmetric likert scale, and with the same ratings for adults and underage people. The Likert scale weighted Answers (Ai), offered for the participants were: • A1: Never (0 Points) • A2: Almost Never (1 Point) • A3: Sometimes (2 Points) • A4: Almost Always (3 Points) • A5: Always (4 Points) Variables 8 to 32 correspond to the execution of the APGAR test, per se, and were coded in the form of a tuple, Question-Answer (Qi-Aj). The ‘i’ value identifies the 5 types of questions, while the ‘j’ index determines the 5 types of answers. All the tuples Qi-Aj were encoded through a boolean variable (0/1). Where ‘0’ indicates the absence of a value in the tuple and ‘1’ the presence of a value in the tuple. All the APGAR tests were taken in Spanish since it is the official language of Ecuador, and then transcribed into English. Although the data has been collected by using the APGAR test to measure family functions and their changes in the postmodern context, it is important to note that the collected data could be used for other different purposes.

本数据集通过APGAR家庭功能测试（APGAR test）采集，旨在衡量后现代语境下的家庭功能及其变化。本研究历时三年，共纳入77名研究对象，其中71名为成年人，剩余6名为未成年人。上述参与者来自厄瓜多尔基多市37个不同社会阶层的家庭，招募采用方便性非概率抽样方法。
本研究的APGAR测试方案改编自文献[1]的研究，并针对厄瓜多尔本土语境进行了适配调整。数据集已完成采集、清洗与整合，以CSV结构化格式存储为单个文件，且无缺失值。
为保障参与者身份匿名，所有个人信息均已做脱敏处理。此外，所有参与者均已签署知情同意书，同意其信息可用于学术用途，包括学术期刊发表、学术报告演示及数字学术库收录。
文件内的结构化数据采用行-列形式组织。每一行（即一个样本实例）代表针对一名个体开展的一次APGAR测试，每一列则代表数据集的不同变量（属性）。每次APGAR测试均附带测试过程中采集的元数据。
与个体基本信息相关的元数据位于数据集的第1至7列属性中，具体说明如下：
• Person_ID：每位参与APGAR测试的个体的唯一标识符，为离散型定量变量。
• Year：数据采集年份，为离散型定量变量。
• Family_ID：每个家庭的唯一标识符，为离散型定量变量。
• Age：参与者年龄（单位：岁），为离散型定量变量。
• Familiar_Rol：个体对自身在家庭中所扮演角色的自我认定，为开放式分类的名义定性变量。共识别出7个类别：父亲、母亲、儿子、女儿、侄子/外甥、祖母/外祖母、继父。
• Gender：个体对自身性别的自我认定，为开放式分类的名义定性变量。共识别出2个类别：男性与女性。
• Location：家庭住所的地理位置，为封闭式分类的名义定性变量，分类标准基于基多大都会区的官方行政区域划分。共识别出19个类别。
在厄瓜多尔语境中，年满18周岁（含18周岁）的个体视为成年人。为区分成年与未成年两个亚群体，本研究针对APGAR测试设计了两类不同的问卷题目。
针对成年人的测试题目（Qi）如下：
• Q1：当我遇到问题或有需求时，我对从家人处获得的帮助感到满意。
• Q2：我对家人给予我的参与度与自由度感到满意。
• Q3：我对家人接纳并支持我开展新活动的方式感到满意。
• Q4：我对家人表达爱意、回应我愤怒、悲伤、爱慕等情绪的方式感到满意。
• Q5：我对我们一家人的共享状态感到满意：a）共度的时光；b）家中的居住空间；c）可支配的家庭资金。
针对未成年人的测试题目（Qi）如下：
• Q1：当我为任何事感到焦虑时，我可以向家人寻求帮助。
• Q2：我喜欢家人与我交流、分享他们的问题的方式。
• Q3：我喜欢家人允许我去做我想做的新事物的方式。
• Q4：我喜欢家人在我开心、悲伤、愤怒等情绪下的应对方式。
• Q5：我喜欢我和家人共度时光的方式。
此外，针对每道题目，本研究设计了5种不同权重的备选答案，基于线性对称李克特（Likert）量表制定，且成年与未成年参与者采用相同的评分标准。为参与者提供的李克特量表加权答案（Ai）如下：
• A1：从不（0分）
• A2：几乎从不（1分）
• A3：有时（2分）
• A4：几乎总是（3分）
• A5：总是（4分）
数据集的第8至32列属性对应APGAR测试的题目作答情况，以「问题-答案（Qi-Aj）」元组形式编码。其中，索引‘i’对应5类测试题目，索引‘j’对应5类备选答案。所有Qi-Aj元组均通过布尔变量（0/1）进行编码：‘0’表示该元组无对应作答，‘1’表示该元组存在有效作答。
所有APGAR测试均以西班牙语完成（西班牙语为厄瓜多尔官方语言），之后转录为英文。尽管本数据集通过APGAR测试采集，旨在衡量后现代语境下的家庭功能及其变化，但需说明的是，采集所得的数据也可用于其他多种不同用途。