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- Cederfeldt, Marie, 1957, et al.
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Inter-rater reliability and face validity of the Executive Function Performance Test (EFPT)
- 2015
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Ingår i: British Journal of Occupational Therapy. - : SAGE Publications. - 0308-0226 .- 1477-6006. ; 78:9, s. 563-569
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Occupational therapists need an instrument to assess executive dysfunctions before patients are discharged from acute wards. The Executive Function Performance Test (EFPT) appears to be suitable, since it evaluates dysfunctions in complex activities. The aim of this study was to translate the EFPT from English into Swedish and to evaluate its properties when used with older persons with mild stroke in an acute setting. Method The study consisted of three parts: (1) a translation procedure using a forward and backward method; (2) evaluation of face validity; (3) inter-rater reliability by four raters (two pairs) who made 34 assessments in 17 older patients with mild stroke in an acute ward. Results The inter-rater reliability for the EFPT was good. The median was 88% of the percentage agreement. No occasional disagreement was found between the raters, but there was a systematic disagreement in one out of 20 items. The translation and face validity process resulted in further clarification of the semantic and cultural equivalence of the EFPT, and the manual was changed accordingly. Conclusion This study showed that inter-rater reliability was good and that the EFPT was found to be an interesting assessment, although further research is needed.
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- Lidman, Git, et al.
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How children with cerebral palsy master bimanual activities from a parental perspective.
- 2018
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of occupational therapy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1651-2014 .- 1103-8128. ; 25:4, s. 252-259
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During childhood, children learn the daily life activities they want and need to do. Children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy often have difficulties performing activities requiring two hands.To describe parental reasoning on how children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy learn to master the performance of bimanual activities in everyday life.Sixteen parents participated in focus groups, a qualitative research approach with its own methodological criteria and research methods.One overall theme emerged from the analysis: 'Finding harmony between pleasure and effort is the key to learning'. This overall theme arose as a synthesis of four themes: 'awakening of the inner drive', 'trying on one's own', 'enabling things to work' and 'it must be worth the effort´. The parents described when an activity woke their children´s inner drive to perform. Their children also strived to develop their own way to perform an activity, sometimes with the support of others, still, some activities were not possible to learn.Occupational therapists and others in the children's environment have an important mission to support the children to find their own harmony between pleasure and effort and their individual key to success in learning bimanual everyday activities.
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