title: Reliability and validity of a Chinese version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory in children with cerebral palsy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Kuan-Lin
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ching-Lin
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Ching-Fan
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Sheu
authors.forename: Fu-Chang
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Mei-Hui
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Tseng
mesh_terms: 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