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- Title
Development and Validation of a Gujarati Questionnaire for Evaluating Levels of Awareness, Acceptance, Socio-Economic Stress & Expectations from Physiotherapy Services in Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy.
- Authors
Ramanandi, Vivek Harsukhbhai; Prabhakar, Mukund Motibhai
- Abstract
Parents of children with cerebral palsy experience anxiety, depression, guilt and low self-esteem, frustration, low matrimonial and personal satisfaction etc. While planning interventions for the child with cerebral palsy, physiotherapist should consider physical and psychological health of caregivers, influence of social support, family functioning etc. This study gives an overview of the procedure for development and validation of a Gujarati questionnaire to evaluate levels of awareness, acceptance, stress & expectations from physiotherapy services through two-stage process. At the 1st stage domain determination, item generation and instrument formation was done. In the 2nd stage, face and content validation was done using consensus method by a group of 10 experts. As a result, questionnaire having 9 dimensions and 84 items with acceptable levels of validity was developed.
- Subjects
CHILDREN with cerebral palsy; CHILD services; PHYSICAL therapy; HEALTH of caregivers; ANXIETY; SOCIAL influence; AWARENESS; PHYSICAL therapists
- Publication
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 6, p1074
- ISSN
0976-0245
- Publication type
Article