Malkawi Somaya H, Abu-Dahab Sana M N, Amro Ahmad F, Almasri Nihad A
Department of Occupational Therapy, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Department of Hearing and Speech, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan.
Occup Ther Int. 2017 Mar 7;2017:5180382. doi: 10.1155/2017/5180382. eCollection 2017.
The Preschool Activity Card Sort (PACS) is an interview-based assessment tool to measure participation of preschool children with age range from 3 to 6 years.
The purpose of this study was to establish the psychometric properties of the recently translated Arabic PACS (A-PACS).
One hundred fifty-one Jordanian parents participated in the study representing different geographical areas. Children were almost equally distributed between males and females and into three age groups. Construct and concurrent validity were examined as well as the internal consistency of the scale and the test-retest reliability.
The A-PACS was able to differentiate between the participation level of young and old children in the domains of education, community mobility, and low demand leisure of the A-PACS giving evidence to its construct validity and it significantly correlated with some aspects of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS) giving evidence to its concurrent validity. The A-PACS showed excellent overall internal consistency ( = .859) for all domains and good test-retest reliability ( = .976, < .001).
The A-PACS can be considered as a valid and reliable tool to measure participation of preschool children with normal development from Arabic cultures. Future studies should focus on the validity of the A-PACS for use with children with disabilities.
学前活动卡片分类测试（PACS）是一种基于访谈的评估工具，用于测量年龄在3至6岁的学前儿童的参与度。
本研究的目的是确定最近翻译的阿拉伯语PACS（A-PACS）的心理测量特性。
151名约旦家长参与了该研究，他们代表不同的地理区域。儿童在性别上几乎平均分布，并分为三个年龄组。检验了结构效度和同时效度，以及量表的内部一致性和重测信度。
A-PACS能够区分A-PACS教育、社区活动能力和低需求休闲领域中幼儿和年长儿童的参与水平，证明了其结构效度，并且它与文兰适应行为量表（VABS）的某些方面显著相关，证明了其同时效度。A-PACS在所有领域都显示出出色的总体内部一致性（=0.859）和良好的重测信度（=0.976，P<0.001）。
A-PACS可被视为一种有效且可靠的工具，用于测量来自阿拉伯文化的发育正常的学前儿童的参与度。未来的研究应关注A-PACS用于残疾儿童的效度。
