Development of the Dimensional Inventory of Child Development Assessment (IDADI)

Abstract

Child development is complex and includes multiple domains, such as cognition, communication and language, motor skills, socialization, and emotional development. The objective of this paper was to present the development process of the Dimensional Inventory of Child Development Assessment (IDADI) and evidence of its content validity. IDADI was conceived to assess child development of children from zero to 72 months of age through parental reports covering Cognitive, Motor (Gross and Fine), Communication and Language (Receptive and Expressive), Socioemotional and Adaptive Behavior domains. The development process involved: description of the theoretical foundation; development of the preliminary version of the instrument; expert item analysis; semantic analysis of the items by the target population; and a pilot study. The initial item pool had 2,365 items and the final version consisted of 524, after exclusions, modifications and additions. The stages of development led to changes in most of the items. This process is considered to have ensured IDADI’s content validity. Thus, it is believed that IDADI will contribute to child development assessment in Brazil in clinical and research contexts.

Validation of the short version of the dimensional inventory for child development assessment

“…The ASQ-BR was validated only in the context of public day-cares from the state of Rio de Janeiro, 20 while the BSID commercial version was only translated to Brazilian-Portuguese, and the norms of interpretation are based on an outdated American sample collected from years 2000 to 2002. 12 IDADI, on the other hand, benefitted from a thorough content scrutiny of experienced professionals, semantic analysis of Brazilian mothers, and empirical validation data from all five regions of the country, 14 , 15 thus making it an important tool for this population.…”

“…This included content scrutiny by 18 subject matter experts, semantic analysis using a four-session focus group with seven mothers of low socioeconomic status, which were purposefully selected to check item comprehension, and a pilot study with 12 mothers who answered the full set of IDADI items. 14 IDADI also underwent various studies to obtain validity and reliability evidence. 15 , 16 …”

Para Além do QI: Avaliação do Comportamento Adaptativo na Deficiência Intelectual

“…Uma das dimensões medidas pelo inventário é o CA e o instrumento possui estudos com amostra brasileira. (Silva et al, 2019). Outros estudos pertinentes ao tema estão em curso no Brasil.…”

Construção e Evidências de Validade de Conteúdo da Escala de Funcionamento Adaptativo para Deficiência Intelectual (EFA-DI)

“…Os instrumentos utilizados para a construção dos itens foram: Behavior Assessment System for Children -Basc 2 (Reynolds, 2004), Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Sparrow et al, 2005) (Harrison & Oakland, 2003), Quality of Life Inventory -Peds QL (Varni, 1998) e a dimensão Comportamento Adaptativo do Inventário Dimensional de Avaliação do Desenvolvimento Infantil -IDADI (Silva, Mendonça-Filho & Bandeira, 2019).…”