Self-identified Participation and Environment of Children With Disabilities

To Hear Diverse Voices: Self-identified Participation Goals and Environmental Supports and Barriers of Children With Disabilities

Picture My Participation (PmP) is a child self-report tool for children and adolescents with disabilities. The PmP uses pictures that enable children to identify participation frequencies, participation goals, and environmental supports/barriers to a home, school, and community activities. The PmP has been translated to different languages and cultures, including Traditional Chinese for the use in Taiwan. Given the advances and popularity of mobile technologies, the PmP-Traditional Chinese version has been developed into App software (PmP-C App) to provide a fun and user-friendly interface to promote communication and active engagement in the assessment process. The PmP-C App version would be need to establish the usability, reliability and validity in children with various types of disabilities.

The purposes of this study are to: establish usability, reliability, and validity using the PMP App version, and characterize child-identified participation goals and identify environmental supports and barriers in children with and without disabilities. Data will be collected by examination and interviews using the PmP-C App and other measures for validation.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Developmental Disability
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: PmP-C App

Detailed Description

This is a two-year cross-sectional study to explore the use of the PmP-C App version with children with and without disabilities. The estimated participants are 160 pairs of children with disabilities 6-12 years of age and their caregivers and 160 age-matched peers with typical development and their caregivers (a total of 640 participants). The design enables validation of the responses of children with disabilities with various sources (i.e. caregivers' responses, children without disabilities, and other child-report measures). Findings of reliability and validity will provide a basis for reporting child-identified participation goals and environmental factors. The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) guideline is used to design a high-quality validation study. To characterize child-perceived participation and environment, the data are collected for two groups: one group of children with disabilities (the DD group) and one group of children without disabilities (the TD group). The design enables examination of how prioritized activities and frequent encountered environmental supports and barriers may vary given different capabilities of children with disabilities and peers with typical development.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 538

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • Taoyuan, Taiwan, 333
    • Chang Gung University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years to 12 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

children with disabilities 6-12 years old and their parents or primary caregivers; age-matched children with typical development and their caregivers

Description

Children with disabilities

Inclusion Criteria:

• children aged 6 to 12 years old
• children with an identified disability or health conditions through early intervention or Disability Evaluation System in Taiwan
• children have a cognitive level of at least 5 years developmental age in receptive language based on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) test
• children are able to make choices between 4 options (tested by three trial questions) and are able to express their thoughts verbally, in writing/typing, or with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• both the child and caregiver agree to join this study

Exclusion Criteria:

• children with unstable health conditions, such as cancer, having surgery within 3 months, infection, or other active medical conditions that affect their recent daily lives
• children with progressive disease (e.g. neuromuscular disease) or degenerative disorders (e.g. degenerative seizures)
• children who are non-communicable, with uncorrected vision or hearing impairments that cannot see the instruments or hear the interview questions
• children and/or caregivers who do not understand Chinese well and thus cannot complete the instruments

Children with typical development

Inclusion criteria:

• children aged 6 to 12 years old
• children without identified disability, physical or mental health conditions related to developmental disabilities
• children are able to make choices between 4 options (tested by three trial questions) and are able to express their thoughts verbally
• both the child and caregiver agree to participate in this study

Exclusion criteria:

• children with unstable health or medical conditions (e.g. trauma or infection)
• children and/or caregivers who do not understand Chinese well and thus cannot complete the instruments

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
DD group; 160 pairs of children with disabilities 6-12 years of age and their caregivers (n=320)	Device: PmP-C App; The key features of PmP-C App include: "About Me" (entering child's demographic data e.g. age, gender, family members), "My participation" (answering frequency and involvement of activities), and "My goal" (selecting 3 important activities they desire to change and identify things that made them easy or hard to do, i.e. participation goals and environmental supports or barriers). The App is to be manipulated adult interviewers but also can be manipulated by the child if they are able to.
TD group; 160 pairs of typically developing children 6-12 years of age and their caregivers (n=320)	Device: PmP-C App; The key features of PmP-C App include: "About Me" (entering child's demographic data e.g. age, gender, family members), "My participation" (answering frequency and involvement of activities), and "My goal" (selecting 3 important activities they desire to change and identify things that made them easy or hard to do, i.e. participation goals and environmental supports or barriers). The App is to be manipulated adult interviewers but also can be manipulated by the child if they are able to.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Traditional Chinese version of Picture my Participation (PmP-C) frequency scores	The PmP-C participation frequency is scored on a 4-point scale (1=never to 4=always), a higher score indicating the higher frequency of attending in an activity.	day 1
Traditional Chinese version of Picture my Participation (PmP-C) frequency scores	The PmP-C participation frequency is scored on a 4-point scale (1=never to 4=always), a higher score indicating the higher frequency of attending in an activity.	1 week since day 1 for test-retest reliability
Traditional Chinese version of Picture my Participation (PmP-C) involvement scores	The PmP-C level of involvement is scored on a 3-point scale (1= minimally involved to 3= very involved), a higher score indicating the higher perceived level of involvement when attending an activity.	day 1
Traditional Chinese version of Picture my Participation (PmP-C) involvement scores	The PmP-C level of involvement is scored on a 3-point scale (1= minimally involved to 3= very involved), a higher score indicating the higher perceived level of involvement when attending an activity.	1 week since day 1 for test-retest reliability
Traditional Chinese version of Picture my Participation (PmP-C) important activities	The participants select up to 3 important activities among the PmP-C items, the item numbers will be reported.	day 1
Traditional Chinese version of Picture my Participation (PmP-C) important activities	The participants select up to 3 important activities among the PmP-C items, the item numbers will be reported.	1 week since day 1 for test-retest reliability

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Perceived Efficacy and Goal Setting (PEGS) scores	The PEGS is designed for children with disabilities 5-9 years of age to indicate their perceived competence in performing 24 daily activities and to identify goals for therapy intervention. A higher score indicates higher perceived competence.	day 1

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Usability questionnaire	The questionnaire is a 5-point Likert scale designed specifically for this study, a higher score indicating better user's perceptions on the usability.	day 1

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Chang Gung University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Lin-Ju Kang, PhD, Chung Gung University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 30, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): October 30, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 12, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 18, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): August 21, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 19, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 15, 2022
• Last Verified: January 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Developmental Disabilities
• Other Study ID Numbers: 201812ES010

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No