title: Professionals' views of children's everyday life situations and the relation to participation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim was to determine professionals' views of everyday life situations (ELS) of importance for children and to explore how ELS correlate with the construct "Participation". This study was part of a larger work to develop a structured tool with code sets to identify child participation and support children with disabilities to describe what matters most for them in intervention planning.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study had a concurrent mixed methods design. Information from one open-ended question and questionnaires were linked to the ICF-CY component Activities and Participation. Two concurrent data sets were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Proposed ELS were distributed across ICF-CY categories from low to high level of complexity and context specificity. The correlation with participation became stronger for the later chapters of the component (d7-d9). Differences between respondents due to working field, country, and children's ages were explored. Acts and tasks seemed most important for the youngest children, whereas ELS shifted towards societal involvement for adolescents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Eleven categories related to ICF-CY chapters d3-d9 emerged as ELS. Two age groups (infants/preschoolers and adolescents) are required to develop code sets for the new tool. The results need triangulation with other concurrent studies to provide corroborating evidence and add a family perspective.
authors: School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden. margareta.adolfsson@hlk.hj.se
authors: Margareta
authors: M
authors: Adolfsson
authors: Mats
authors: M
authors: Granlund
authors: Mia
authors: M
authors: Pless
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000145:classification*; D000293:Adolescent; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled