Psychometric evaluation of the Spanish version of the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment and Preferences for Activities of Children

Abstract

Culturally sensitive and valid assessments of participation in occupations are needed for Spanish-speaking children to enhance services offered to this population. The purpose of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of the newly developed Spanish version of the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment and Preferences for Activities of Children, the Evaluación de Participacion y Disfrute de los Niños y Preferencias de las Actividades de los Niños (EPDN/PAN). The sample included 249 children with and without disabilities, aged 6 to 15 years. Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) in the participation of children with disabilities and children without disabilities, and between younger and older children were found. No statistical significant differences were found between males and females in the dimensions of participation assessed. Adequate internal consistency (0.70-0.92) was found for the PAN scale and the Overall and Informal domain scores of the EPDN-Intensity scale. Further study is needed to evaluate the formal domain scale and gender differences by activity types.

Reliability of the Norwegian Version of the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC)

“…Comparable to our results, alpha values from 0.70 to 0.92 for the two domains and the overall scores were reported for a Spanish version of PAC (Colon et al, 2008). The corrected correlation between PAC's individual items and sum score within the activity type was shown in our study to contribute to measure the same phenomena.…”

“…The instruments measure several dimensions of participation, and the information can influence interventions, services and research (King et al, 2007). Psychometric properties of CAPE and PAC have been found acceptable in children with disabilities (Bult et al, 2010;Harding et al, 2009;Imms, 2008;King et al, 2004King et al, , 2007Law et al, 2006;Engel-Yeger & Jarus, 2008;Colon et al,2008;).…”

An international comparison of patterns of participation in leisure activities for children with and without disabilities in Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands

“…In this study, data distributed by activity types were used concerning diversity and intensity. Several studies have provided indications of reliability and validity of the CAPE outcomes, including studies from Sweden and the Netherlands [28,[43][44][45][46][47]. As the original CAPE questionnaire is in English, forward and backward translations according to international guidelines were carried out in the different countries and conducted according to the license agreement approved by the publisher.…”

Cross‐cultural validation of the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) in Spain

“…In both studies children and adolescents with and without disabilities took part and provided data confirming the construct validity and test–retest and inter‐interviewer reliability (Colón et al . ; Bult et al . ).…”