Psychometric Properties of the Children With Cerebral Palsy (7-18 Years Old) Self-Care Skills Scale-Parent Form: A Turkish Validity and Reliability Study.
Betul Yavuz, Bircan Kahraman Berberoğlu, Hüsniye Çalişir
PMID 41857787WHAT IT FOUND
Parents of Turkish children with cerebral palsy aged 7-18 can rate 19 self-care items, from feeding to communicating needs.
Scores tracked gross motor levels and stayed similar over 2 weeks, but there is no cutoff for low or high.
Key findings
01The final parent form had 19 items: 16 self-care tasks and 3 items about expressing hunger, thirst and toileting needs.
02When 76 parents completed the scale again 2 weeks later, total scores were very close (r = 0.976).
03Total and self-care scores were highest at GMFCS level 1 and lowest at GMFCS level 5.
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What it does not show
Only parents who could be reached at special education and rehabilitation centres volunteered, so children not attending such centres are not represented. Parents were selected by non-probability random sampling, not a random sample of all families. No gold-standard measure was available, so the scale could not be compared with an external standard and no cutoff score for low or high self-care was established. The scale was tested only in Turkish, so it may not behave the same in other languages or cultures. It is a parent-report scale, not a direct observation or performance test, and the study did not test whether using the scale improves self-care.
Declared interests
The authors report no funding and declare no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that the scale improves self-care or as a ready-made diagnostic cutoff. It was tested only with Turkish parents of children attending rehabilitation centres, and no gold-standard cutoff was established.