New version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI-CAT): translation, cultural adaptation to Brazil and analyses of psychometric properties.
Marisa C Mancini, Wendy J Coster, Maíra F Amaral and 3 others
PMID 27333475WHAT IT FOUND
Brazilian parents understood the translated PEDI-CAT and rated it as describing daily function.
Scores were stable after 7 to 15 days, but the children and youth had normal development.
Key findings
0195% of parents reported no trouble understanding the items, and 98% said the items represented their child's function.
02The scores were very consistent when parents repeated the assessment after 7 to 15 days, and consistency was good to excellent across age groups.
03The Daily Activities, Mobility, and Social/Cognitive items worked best as one overall function score.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for PTsWhat it means for OTsWhat it means for SLPs
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What it does not show
The pre-final version was tested only in parents of children and youth with normal development, so it does not show how the instrument performs in children with disabilities. Participants were recruited by convenience, so they may not represent all Brazilian families. Normative data had not yet been collected, and the paper says that was the next stage. The study reports questionnaire properties, not patient outcomes or treatment effects. For the Daily Activities, Mobility, and Social/Cognitive domains, the factor analysis favoured a single overall score rather than separate domain factors.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use this paper as evidence that the PEDI-CAT/Brazil works for children with disabilities or that score changes are treatment effects. It was tested only in parents of children and youth with normal development, and normative data had not yet been collected.