Neumann, Sandra, Salm, Sandra ORCID: 0000-0003-1392-0140, Rietz, Christian and Stenneken, Prisca
(2017).
The German Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS-G): Reliability and Validity of a Novel Assessment of Communicative Participation.
J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res., 60 (3).
S. 675 - 682.
ROCKVILLE:
AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC.
ISSN 1558-9102
Abstract
Purpose: Our purpose was to explore the validity and reliability of the German Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS-G; Thomas-Stonell, Oddson, Robertson, & Rosenbaum, 2010, 2012), which is an authorized adaptation of the Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (Thomas-Stonell et al., 2010) tool, which measures communicative participation in preschool children. Method: Parents of typically developing children (TDC) and of children with speech impairment (CSI) completed the FOCUS-G and the Questionnaire for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children (KiddyKINDL; Ravens-Sieberer & Bullinger, 2000). To determine test-retest reliability, the FOCUS-G was readministered to a subsample of parents 1 week later. Results: The FOCUS-G had high values for internal consistency (alpha =.959, Omega =.941), test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient =.974), and split-half reliability (r =.832). Total scores on the FOCUS-G and KiddyKINDL demonstrated significant associations. FOCUS-G total scores and subdomain scores for both samples showed significant correlations, indicating good construct validity. The discriminatory ability of the FOCUS-G was indicated by significantly higher mean scores for TDC (M = 6.03, SD = 0.65) than CSI (M = 5.47, SD = 1.02). Conclusion: The overall good psychometric properties of this novel assessment of communicative participation support its use by speech-language pathologists for clinical and research purposes with German-speaking children.
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-237242 | ||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-15-0219 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 675 - 682 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC | ||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | ROCKVILLE | ||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1558-9102 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/23724 |
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