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George, Babu, Aswathymana Raju, Jubyraj, Mundappaliyil Leela, Leena, Appukkuttan Omana, Mini, Bhaskaran, Deepa, Saradamma, Remadevi, Sarasamma, Letha, Madhavan Amrutha, Lekshmi, Kunjumon, Reshma, Indiradevi, Lalikumari, Mahendran, Preema |
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Indian Journal of Pediatrics; Oct2024, Vol. 91 Issue 10, p1014-1020, 7p |
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Objectives: To develop a tool to assess pre-writing skills of 2-5 y old children in India. Methods: The tool development process followed the recommendations by Fitzpatrick et al. and the Consensus based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN), and included 4 phases. In Phase I, an initial 35-item draft tool was developed by an expert panel for the tool-development. In Phase II, the 35-item draft tool was prevalidated through peer and expert reviews, pilot-study to assess the tool-comprehensibility, and assessment of test-retest and inter-rater reliability. In Phase III, the 35-item draft tool was administered on the 575 typically developing children aged 2-5 y, recruited from rural, urban, slum, and coastal areas through stratified random sampling. In Phase IV, the normative age-range for development of each item was generated by calculating the age-percentiles (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th). Factor analysis and item reduction was done for items in 2-3, 3-4, and 4-5 y age-groups. The final tool was converted to graphic format with 10th-90th age-percentile bars. Results: The final tool had 26 items with a three-factor structure. Cronbach's alpha was within acceptable limits for all three age-groups (0.723, 0.778, and 0.823 in 2-3 y, 3-4 y, and 4-5 y respectively). Kappa coefficients of the items ranged from 0.6-1 in interrater reliability and 0.64-1 test-retest reliability analysis reflecting substantial agreement between ratings. Conclusions: A 26-item screening tool "Prewriting skills Assessment Tool" (PAT) to assess writing readiness of 2-5 y old children was developed. Tool reliability and construct validity have been established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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