The Development and Initial Validation of a Short, Self-Report Measure on Social Inclusion for People with Intellectual Disabilities-A Transnational Study.

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RESEARCH PRODUCT

The Development and Initial Validation of a Short, Self-Report Measure on Social Inclusion for People with Intellectual Disabilities-A Transnational Study.

Pauli Rintala Nelli Lyyra Roy Mcconkey Piritta Asunta Florian Pochstein

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030506 rehabilitation Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Applied psychology vammaiset Psychological intervention Item bank lcsh:Medicine liikunta urheilu Self-report study Surveys and Questionnaires Intellectual disability osallisuus kehitysvammaiset osallistuminen itsearviointi biology 05 social sciences transnational Confirmatory factor analysis sosiaaliset suhteet Europe intellectual disability community social inclusion sports 0305 other medical science Psychology Inclusion (education)inkluusio Psychometrics Social Inclusion Article 03 medical and health sciences yhteenkuuluvuus Intellectual Disability 0502 economics and business medicine Humans self-report measures Athletes lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Construct validity Reproducibility of Results yhteisöt medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Self Report 050212 sport leisure & tourism

description

Sport has been promoted as a means of increasing the social inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities. Suitable tools for evaluating this claim are not readily available. The aim of this study was to develop a self-report tool for use by people with intellectual disabilities regarding the social inclusion they experience in sport and in the community. A three-phase process was used. In the first phase an item bank of questionnaire items was created and field-tested with 111 participants. Initial factor analysis identified 42 items which were further evaluated in Phase 2 with 941 participants from six European countries. Construct validity was established first through Exploratory and then Confirmatory factor analysis. These analyses identified ten items relating to inclusion in sports and ten to inclusion in local communities. A third phase checked the usability and test-retest reliability of the short form with a further 228 participants. In all, 1280 athletes and non-disabled partners were involved from eight countries. This short social inclusion questionnaire has been shown to be a reliable and valid measure for use transnationally. Further psychometric properties remain to be tested

year	journal	country	edition	language
2021-03-04	International journal of environmental research and public health

10.3390/ijerph18052540 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33806385