Cross-cultural validation of the German Paediatric Evaluation Disability Inventory - Computer Adaptive Test: A comparative study with American normative standard scores
2025 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, ISSN 1103-8128, E-ISSN 1651-2014, Vol. 32, no 1, article id 2505417Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The Paediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI), has been revised as a computer adaptive test; the PEDI-CAT. Many items have been added making it relevant for children and youth from birth to 20 years of age. The PEDI-CAT measures performance in the Functional Skills domains of Daily Activities, Mobility and Social/Cognitive. The PEDI-CAT's Responsibility domain measures the extent to which the caregiver or child takes responsibility for managing complex, multi-step life tasks. In this exploratory study the normative scores of children with typical development of Switzerland (n = 51) and Germany (n = 61) were compared with the American normative sample to investigate its applicability. The mean age of the children was 5.78 years with a standard deviation of 1.39 years and a range of 4.10 years. Statistically significant differences in comparison with the mean normative scores with moderate to strong effect were found in all domains. Still, 95% or more of all scores from the participants were within a 2 standard deviation range from the mean normative scores. The results indicate that the normative scores should right now be applied to the German version of the PEDI-CAT with caution. Further studies are needed to further investigate applicability of the normative values.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis Group , 2025. Vol. 32, no 1, article id 2505417
Keywords [en]
Humans, Male, Child, Female, Germany, Disability Evaluation, Child, Preschool, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Activities of Daily Living, Switzerland, United States, Adolescent, Children with Disabilities, Reproducibility of Results, Psychometrics, assessment, developmental disability
National Category
Pediatrics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-76723DOI: 10.1080/11038128.2025.2505417ISI: 001501473400001PubMedID: 40459330OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-76723DiVA, id: diva2:1966389
2025-06-102025-06-102025-06-10Bibliographically approved