Turkish Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI).
Aymen Balikci, Ayse Firdevs Aracikul Balikci, Isabelle Beaudry-Bellefeuille and 6 others
PMID 42770569WHAT IT FOUND
Experts rated the Turkish EASI sensory integration test instructions clear and culturally appropriate, and nine children understood them.
This adaptation is not evidence that the test measures what it should for Turkish children yet.
Key findings
01The Turkish EASI was completed through a seven-step translation and cultural adaptation process, with only minor wording revisions.
02All experts and all children gave positive ratings for the translated materials.
03The study did not evaluate the Turkish version's reliability or validity.
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What it does not show
The authors state that the expert and child samples were convenience samples and may have introduced bias. The child pretesting involved nine typically developing children aged 6-8 from one private school in Istanbul, although the EASI is designed for children aged 3-12. No reliability or validity testing was done, so the Turkish version's psychometric properties are unknown. The adaptation used the current EASI version, and the authors note that final psychometric analyses may remove items. Some experts in the review and back-translation stages were authors or EASI developers.
Declared interests
The supplied text does not report funding or conflicts of interest. It states permission to translate and adapt the EASI was obtained from the EASI developers, and two EASI developers took part in the back-translation review.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that the Turkish EASI gives accurate or consistent scores for Turkish children. The study only translated and culturally adapted the test; it did not test how well it measures.