Kuan-Lin Chen, Ching-Lin Hsieh, Ching-Fan Sheu, Fu-Chang Hu, Mei-Hui Tseng
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0319

Objectives: To examine the reliability and validity of a Chinese version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory in children with cerebral palsy.
Design: A prospective study.
Subjects: Two samples: 58 children with cerebral palsy (mean age 65. 4 (standard deviation 29. 9) months) and 89 normally developing children (mean age 43. 5 (standard deviation 20. 6) months).
Methods: The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory was translated and cross-culturally adapted into a Chinese version. The test-retest reliability, concurrent validity and discriminative validity were examined.
Results: Internal consistency was high (Cronbach’s α: 0. 90–0. 99). Test-retest reliability was excellent (intraclass correlation coefficient: 0. 982–0. 998). The concurrent validity was good, as evidenced by the high correlation between the Pedia¬tric Evaluation of Disability Inventory and the Functional Independence Measure for Children (Spearman’s ρ: 0. 92–0. 99). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory factor scores estimated by confirmatory factor analysis differentiated the children with cerebral palsy from normally developing children.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated that the Chinese version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory has good reliability and validity and provides support for its use in Chinese-speaking children with cerebral palsy.