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Responding to everyday problems and crises: Measuring community resilience
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Resilience is of the upmost importance to deal with everyday problems faced by communities.
The concept of community resilience is gaining prominence in disaster management policy and
practice, and it has been shown to be an important factor during pandemic recovery such as
during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. We present an instrument for community resilience
assessment adapted for disasters like the pandemics. The instrument was based on the theory based and evidence-informed Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART) Assessment
Survey, adapted for the first time to Portuguese. Another strong feature of this study relates to
the targeted participants, namely human service workers (598). They are key informants for
their close involvement with communities. This version of the CART was reliable. A confirmatory
factor analysis indicated a good relationship between the observed variables and their
underlying latent constructs. Moreover, tests for measurement invariance across participants
showed that differences in factor variances and covariances were not attributable to age-based
differences in the properties of the scales themselves. Our findings support the fundamental
idea that it is worthwhile to have an instrument to measure community resilience. Thus, our
study adds to the evaluation of the CART, supporting its value as a robust instrument to measure
resilience at the community level in different countries.
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CART; CommuniResilience; Community Resilience Assessment; COVID‐19; Key Informants; Pandemic; Portuguese Adaptation