Reliability and validity of a Chinese version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory in children with cerebral palsy.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the reliability and validity of a Chinese version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory in children with cerebral palsy.


METHODS
A prospective study.


METHODS
Two samples: 58 children with cerebral palsy (mean age 65.4 (standard deviation 29.9) months) and 89 normally developing children (mean age 43.5 (standard deviation 20.6) months).


METHODS
The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory was translated and cross-culturally adapted into a Chinese version. The test-retest reliability, concurrent validity and discriminative validity were examined.


RESULTS
Internal consistency was high (Cronbach's alpha: 0.90-0.99). Test-retest reliability was excellent (intraclass correlation coefficient: 0.982-0.998). The concurrent validity was good, as evidenced by the high correlation between the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory and the Functional Independence Measure for Children (Spearman's rho: 0.92-0.99). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory factor scores estimated by confirmatory factor analysis differentiated the children with cerebral palsy from normally developing children.


CONCLUSIONS
This study demonstrated that the Chinese version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory has good reliability and validity and provides support for its use in Chinese-speaking children with cerebral palsy.
Chen
Kuan-Lin
KL
School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Hsieh
Ching-Lin
CL
Sheu
Ching-Fan
CF
Hu
Fu-Chang
FC
Tseng
Mei-Hui
MH
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results