title: Child-Report Measures of Occupational Performance: A Systematic Review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Improving occupational performance is a key service of occupational therapists and client-centred approach to care is central to clinical practice. As such it is important to comprehensively evaluate the quality of psychometric properties reported across measures of occupational performance; in order to guide assessment and treatment planning.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To systematically review the literature on the psychometric properties of child-report measures of occupational performance for children ages 2-18 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  A systematic search of the following six electronic databases was conducted: CINAHL; PsycINFO; EMBASE; PubMed; the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) database; and Google Scholar. The quality of the studies was evaluated against the COSMIN taxonomy of measurement properties and the overall quality of psychometric properties was evaluated using pre-set psychometric criteria.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifteen articles and one manual were reviewed to assess the psychometric properties of the six measures-the PEGS, MMD, CAPE, PAC, COSA, and OSA- which met the inclusion criteria. Most of the measures had conducted good quality studies to evaluate the psychometric properties of measures (PEGS, CAPE, PAC, OSA); however, the quality of the studies for two of these measures was relatively weak (MMD, COSA). When integrating the quality of the psychometric properties of the measures with the quality of the studies, the PAC stood out as having superior psychometric qualities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The overall quality of the psychometric properties of most measures was limited. There is a need for continuing research into the psychometric properties of child-report measures of occupational performance, and to revise and improve the psychometric properties of existing measures.
authors.affiliation: School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
authors.forename: Reinie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cordier
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Yu-Wei
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Renée
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Speyer
authors.affiliation: School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
authors.forename: Rebekah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Totino
authors.affiliation: College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Doma
authors.affiliation: College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leicht
authors.affiliation: College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
authors.forename: Belinda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cuomo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results