Cross-Cultural Content Validity of the Autism Program Environment Rating Scale in Sweden.
Hampus Bejnö, Lise Roll-Pettersson, Lars Klintwall and 3 others
PMID 30617551WHAT IT FOUND
Nine Swedish experts rated the adapted APERS-P-SE as clear, comprehensive and relevant for assessing preschool program quality for children with ASD.
Practical use scored lowest, and further work is needed to see how it performs in use.
Key findings
01All single items met the study's .78 threshold for clarity and comprehensiveness.
02All domains were rated relevant to the whole scale, with CVIs of 1.00.
03Experts gave practical use the lowest overall statement score, a mean of 2.11 on the 0-to-3 scale.
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What it does not show
The study tested only content validity; reliability and other forms of validity were not examined. Nine experts rated the scale, and five of them had not seen the English original. The Swedish version was not back-translated. The scale takes about 6-7 hours to administer, and experts rated practical use as the least high whole-scale statement. The findings apply to Swedish preschools, and fit to other settings is uncertain.
Declared interests
The paper names Vetenskapsr?det as funder.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that the Swedish APERS-P-SE improves outcomes for children with ASD. The study tested expert-rated content validity only, not reliability, construct validity, or child outcomes.