Barnett Lisa M, Abbott Gavin, Lander Natalie, Jidovtseff Boris, Ridgers Nicola D
Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Exercise and Nutrition Science, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
J Sports Sci. 2022 Nov;40(22):2491-2498. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2023.2165008. Epub 2023 Jan 23.
Promoting swimming and water safety is an important public health issue. The Pictorial Scale of Perceived Water Competence (PSPWC) requires children to indicate their perceived competence using three difficulty levels for 17 swimming scenarios. The aim was to purposefully select four critical scenarios of the PSPWC to create the PSPWC-short form and test for associations with actual swim competence. Four of 17 scenarios were selected and extended to a four-point response scale by adding an extra difficulty level. Parents whose children had participated in at least 1-week swim-intensive programme in 2021 were invited to participate in the study, and perceptions of 139 children (mean age 6.9 years, SD = 1.9) were matched with certificate data of actual swim competence pre- (n = 139) and post-programme (n = 29). Moderate positive correlations were found between swim level at programme start and perception of: retrieving an object in deep water (= 0.57), swimming on front (= 0.60), swimming on back (= 0.69), treading water (= 0.63) and the summed score of all four (= 0.71). After adjusting for sex and age, higher perceived skill was still significantly associated with increasing achieved skill levels. The PSPWC-short form appears to provide a valid measure to be used as a brief screening assessment.
推广游泳和水上安全是一个重要的公共卫生问题。感知水能力的图片量表（PSPWC）要求儿童针对17种游泳场景，使用三个难度级别来表明他们感知到的能力。目的是有目的地选择PSPWC的四个关键场景，以创建PSPWC简版，并测试其与实际游泳能力的关联。从17个场景中选择了4个，并通过增加一个额外的难度级别，将其扩展为四点反应量表。邀请了其子女在2021年参加了至少为期1周的强化游泳课程的家长参与该研究，并将139名儿童（平均年龄6.9岁，标准差=1.9）的感知与课程前（n=139）和课程后（n=29）实际游泳能力的证书数据进行匹配。在课程开始时的游泳水平与以下方面的感知之间发现了中度正相关：在深水中找回物品（=0.57）、仰泳（=0.60）、仰泳（=0.69）、踩水（=0.63）以及所有四项的总分（=0.71）。在对性别和年龄进行调整后，较高的感知技能仍然与提高的实际技能水平显著相关。PSPWC简版似乎提供了一种有效的测量方法，可作为一种简短的筛查评估。
