[19, 20]. The Oslo-3 Social Support Scale is a
three-item instrument using 4 or 5 point Likert response
scales and indicates three levels of support: poor support
(score 3–8), intermediate support (9–11) and strong
support (12–14). The instrument’s Cronbach alpha score is
this study was 0.61, similar to that (0.6) in the original research