Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure: Swedish Cultural Adaptation
2018 (English)In: Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, ISSN 0194-2638, E-ISSN 1541-3144, Vol. 38, no 3, p. 329-342Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Aim: To culturally adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM) for use by caregivers of Swedish children with and without disabilities, aged 2–5 years.
Methods: Thirteen cognitive interviews and two focus groups with caregivers of children with and without disabilities were conducted to evaluate the cultural relevance of YC-PEM content for use in Sweden. Per participant feedback, a revised version of the Swedish YC-PEM was created and pilot tested with caregivers of children with disabilities (n = 11) and children with typical development (n = 22).
Results: User feedback informed content revisions to 7% of items. Internal consistency estimates of the Swedish YC-PEM pilot version were acceptable and ranged from .70 to .92 for all but two of the YC-PEM scales. Mean percentage agreement between raters ranged from 47% to 93% across YC-PEM scales for inter-rater, and 44% to 86% for test-retest. One of twelve YC-PEM scales revealed significant group differences between young children with and without disabilities.
Conclusions: This study contributes preliminary evidence for the use of some scales within a culturally adapted YC-PEM in Sweden. Further validation with larger samples will allow for parametric testing to evaluate its psychometric properties.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2018. Vol. 38, no 3, p. 329-342
Keywords [en]
Children, cultural adaptation, measure, participation, pilot testing, young children's participation and environment measure
National Category
Other Health Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35713DOI: 10.1080/01942638.2017.1318430ISI: 000427061800009PubMedID: 28467126Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85018999414Local ID: HLKCHILDISOAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-35713DiVA, id: diva2:1104650
2017-06-012017-06-012019-11-08Bibliographically approved