Young Adults' Daily Participation Scale: A measure of objective and subjective participation.
Shahar Zaguri-Vittenberg, Naomi Weintraub, Miri Tal-Saban
PMID 39103283WHAT IT FOUND
The YADAPS measures both what young adults do and how they feel about it.
It reliably distinguished adults with coordination disorder from typical peers, showing lower performance and pleasure, though its frequency score was inconsistent.
Key findings
01The scale successfully distinguished young adults with developmental coordination disorder from typical peers, who reported needing more assistance, lower performance, less pleasure, and worse global occupational experience.
02Internal consistency was moderate to high for most scales, but the frequency of participation scale showed low consistency, suggesting people do not engage uniformly across all activities.
03Subjective scores for pleasure, meaning, and global experience correlated positively with life satisfaction, linking participation quality to wellbeing.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited via convenience sampling in a Western middle-class context, mostly students or employed, limiting generalizability to other cultural or socioeconomic groups. The frequency of participation scale had low internal consistency, meaning it may not reliably measure how often people engage in different activities as a single construct. Test-retest reliability and cross-cultural validity have not yet been established. The study did not include a diverse range of health conditions beyond DCD, so its discriminative ability for other populations is unknown.
Declared interests
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume the YADAPS is a ready-to-use clinical standard. The frequency scale showed poor reliability, and the study population was limited to Western, middle-class young adults, so results may not apply to your broader client base.