Assessment of Motor Activities of Daily Living: Spanish Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Reliability and Construct Validity of the DCDDaily-Q

Abstract

<jats:p>The DCDDaily-Q is an instrument that aims to comprehensively assess motor performance in a broad range of activities of daily living (ADL) and to identify risk of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) in children. The aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the DCDDaily-Q into European Spanish (DCDDaily-Q-ES) and to test its psychometric properties in Spanish 5 to 10 year old children. The DCDDaily-Q was translated and cross-culturally adapted into Spanish following international guidelines. Two-hundred and seventy-six parents of typically developing Spanish children completed the final version of the DCDDaily-Q-ES (M = 7.5 years, SD = 1.7; girls = 50%). Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), internal consistency, and corrected item-total correlations were conducted to test construct validity, internal consistency, and homogeneity of the DCDDaily-Q-ES. The DCDDaily-Q-ES achieved good semantic, conceptual, and cultural equivalence. CFA supported construct validity of the DCDDaily-Q-ES. Reliability values were also good (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.703–0.843; corrected item-total correlations = 0.262–0.567). This is the first study to cross-culturally adapt and examine the DCDDaily-Q outside the Netherlands. The findings suggest that the DCDDaily-Q-ES is a reliable and valid measure to assess learning, participation, and performance in a broad range of ADL.</jats:p>

Participation in Everyday Activities of Children with and without Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study in Spain

“…Finally, all daily contexts were strongly associated with each other in our sample. This finding suggests that daily participation is a complex and multifaceted construct comprised of several subareas of different but interrelated occupations, as it has been proposed by previous research [ 26 , 30 ]. Interestingly, school participation showed the strongest correlations with both home and community participation in the total sample and the NDDs group while being the context where children with NDDs faced greater participation restrictions.…”

“…Additionally, satisfactory participation in a particular daily context is hypothesized to be intimately related to participation in other daily contexts, and thus, restrictions or difficulties in one occupational area are expected to lead to restrictions in other activities of daily living as well [ 26 , 27 , 28 ]. This hypothesis is supported by research that shows an interrelation in participation between different daily contexts in typically developing (TD) children [ 29 , 30 , 31 ]. Moreover, performance difficulties or participation restrictions are rarely present in only one particular area but are reported in most daily contexts and activities [ 32 ].…”

Developmental Coordination Disorder, Motor Performance, and Daily Participation in Children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

“…The European Spanish version of the DCDDaily-Q [ 28 , 33 ] was used to assess performance and participation in motor-based daily activities. The DCDDaily-Q is a parent questionnaire that evaluates motor performance and level of participation in 23 activities of daily living (ADL) covering self-care, fine motor and gross motor play activities [ 34 ].…”

“…Higher scores indicate poorer daily motor performance and participation. The DCDDaily-Q has been cross-culturally adapted to Spanish population and it shows good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.843), excellent construct validity, and good criterion validity with the DCDQ ( r = 0.406–0.638) [ 28 , 33 , 34 ].…”

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Reliability of the Adolescents and Adults Coordination Questionnaire into European Spanish

“…In order to conduct studies on DCD in the Spanish population, health practitioners need cross-culturally adapted screening instruments that are reliable and valid. Some diagnostic measures are currently available that show good cross-cultural equivalence and psychometric properties to evaluate DCD in Spanish children, such as the European Spanish versions of the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ) and the DCDDaily-Q, which allows for a quick identification and assessment of diagnostic criterion B in school-aged students [ 19 , 20 , 21 ]. However, these instruments are not appropriate for its use in older population, as criterion B specifically refers to those activities of daily living that are relevant to chronological age.…”