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Design and validation of AQUA CHILD-Pre-aquatic questionnaire assessing child development
Merav Hadar Frumer1,2, Huib Ten Napel3,4, Maria José Yuste-Sánchez3,4
1Israel Sport Centre for the Disabled (ISCD) Ilan Spivak, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Purpose:
We developed a proxy questionnaire for parents of children with Developmental Delay (DD) to provide comprehensive information for instructors about the child's functioning before participating in aquatic activities. This dedicated information will enable a high-quality treatment plan to promote the child's functioning in everyday life.
Methods:
Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) Coreset development and linking rules method, a set of questions was constructed in a preliminary process. A draft version was sent to instructors and parents in Israel. Seventy-five questionnaires from instructors and 25 from parents returned to the statistical analysis procedure. Reliability and face validity were analyzed by experts.
Results And Conclusions:
The questionnaire showed high validity and reliability for its purposes and allowed self-completion by the parents.
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