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Psychometric Evaluation of the Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire-Home Scale (PSEQ-H)
Katherine B Bevans1, Aimee Piller2, Beth Pfeiffer3
1Katherine B. Bevans, PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia; katherine.bevans@temple.edu.
Importance:
The impact of sensory processing challenges on occupational participation is underrepresented by existing measurement tools even though these outcomes are highly prioritized by families. The Participation and Sensory Environment Questionnaire-Home Scale (PSEQ-H) is a parent-report assessment designed to evaluate the impact of the sensory environment on young children's participation in home-based activities.
Objective:
To describe the psychometric evaluation of the PSEQ-H, including the tool's structural validity; item difficulty, discrimination, and bias; reliability; and construct validity.
Design:
Psychometric field study.
Setting:
Community.
Participants:
Three hundred four parents of children ages 2-7 yr (167 parents of children with autism spectrum disorder).
Method:
Parent-report PSEQ-H data were factor analyzed, calibrated using Item Response Theory, and evaluated for construct validity.
Results:
The final PSEQ-H is a reliable and valid 15-item parent-report measure of the sensory environment's impact on children's dressing, self-care, sleep, and social and play activities.
Conclusions And Relevance:
The PSEQ-H can be used to plan and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for reducing the impact of the sensory environment on children's participation in home-based tasks and activities.
What This Article Adds:
The PSEQ-H measures how young children's sensory environments influence their participation at home. The measure can be used to plan and evaluate occupational therapy interventions that aim to reduce sensory processing-related barriers to children's completion of developmentally salient activities.
