The Psychometric Properties of the Structured Preschool Participation Observation (SPO)

Anat Golos; Naomi Weintraub

doi:10.1080/01942638.2020.1711845

The Psychometric Properties of the Structured Preschool Participation Observation (SPO)

Anat Golos^*, Naomi Weintraub

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School of Occupational Therapy

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Abstract

Aims: To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Structured Preschool Participation Observation (SPO), based on the COnsensus-based-Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments. The SPO development was based on biopsychosocial and ecological models to evaluate children's participation in play, learning and social occupational areas. Methods: Following the establishment of content validity, construct validity using factor analysis and reliability were examined among 250 preschool children with typical development (TD). The known-groups procedure was used, comparing 88 children with developmental disabilities (DD), who attended special educational settings with the TD children. Results: Three factors accounted for 68% of the variance. High internal consistency (alpha>.812) was found, as well as a significant moderate-to-high inter-rater reliability in most areas. Children with TD scored significantly higher than children with DD with small to large effect sizes. Conclusions: The SPO appears to be a suitable measure for assessing children's participation in preschool activities through structured observation. Further studies are needed to further establish its psychometric properties, along with using additional scales of enjoyment and/or involvement and self-care activities. The SPO may assist in generating intervention goals for children with limitations in participation and may complement information gathered from parents.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	582-594
Number of pages	13
Journal	Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics
Volume	40
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01942638.2020.1711845
State	Published - 2 Sep 2020

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Funding Information:
Parts of this study were in collaboration with the Achiya Institute and were supported by the Bernard Van Leer Foundation (ISR-20088-0.25.1.1). We are grateful to the researchers and occupational therapists who assisted in this study, as well as to our partners in the community and the children.

Funding Information:
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (No. 30112017) and the Israeli Ministry of Education (No. 10.32-883).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Keywords

educational setting
evaluation
participation
preschool
reliability
validity

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