Spanish Transcultural Adaptation of the Activity Card Sort.
Cristina Alegre-Muelas, Jorge Alegre-Ayala, Elisabet Huertas-Hoyas and 5 others
PMID 31558888WHAT IT FOUND
The Spanish Activity Card Sort now contains 79 activities tailored to local habits, including napping and going for drinks, while removing less common ones like bingo or church attendance.
This provides therapists with a culturally relevant tool to assess participation in community-dwelling older adults.
Key findings
01The final Spanish version of the Activity Card Sort includes 79 activities categorized into instrumental, leisure, social participation, and productivity/education.
02Three activities unique to the Spanish version are taking a nap, going out for a drink or tapas, and searching for a job.
03Activities considered less frequent in Spain, such as bingo, church attendance, and handicrafts, were excluded from the final scale.
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What it does not show
The study only included adults aged 60 and older, so the scale may not be representative of younger populations. The analysis did not distinguish between participants from urban and rural areas, which might affect the relevance of certain activities depending on the local context. The study focused on item selection and cultural adaptation; it did not report new psychometric data (reliability or validity) for the final Spanish version, relying instead on the established properties of the original ACS.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The study was authorized by the Rey Juan Carlos University Ethics Committee.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume the Spanish version has been psychometrically re-validated in this paper. This study focused on selecting culturally relevant items; the reliability and validity claims rely on the original US scale's properties, which may not fully transfer to the modified Spanish item set.