A 9-item questionnaire asking families of disabled children about community access barriers now has a validated Turkish version. It produces a single score and can be used in Turkish-speaking settings to identify which barriers — transport, stigma, physical access — are limiting a family's participation.
The Turkish MyFACE scale confirmed a single-factor structure with all nine items retained, and internal consistency was 0.859.
Test-retest reliability was excellent (ICC 0.980) when 48 participants completed the scale again after a 15-day interval.
The scale showed expected correlations with participation and quality-of-life measures, supporting its use as a distinct measure of family community engagement rather than a duplicate of existing tools.
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