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Validation of an instrument to assess visual ability in children with visual impairment in China
- Source :
- British Journal of Ophthalmology. 101:475-480
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2016.
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Abstract
- Objective: To validate a visual ability instrument for school-aged children with visual impairment in China by translating, culturally adopting and Rasch scaling the Cardiff Visual Ability Questionnaire for Children (CVAQC). Methods: The 25-item CVAQC was translated into Mandarin using a standard protocol. The translated version (CVAQC-CN) was subjected to cognitive testing to ensure a proper cultural adaptation of its content. Then, the CVAQC-CN was interviewer-administered to 114 school-aged children and young people with visual impairment. Rasch analysis was carried out to assess its psychometric properties. The correlation between the CVAQC-CN visual ability scores and clinical measure of vision (visual acuity; VA and contrast sensitivity, CS) were assessed using Spearman's r. Results: Based on cultural adaptation exercise, cognitive testing, missing data and Rasch metrics-based iterative item removal, three items were removed from the original 25. The 22-item CVAQC-CN demonstrated excellent measurement precision (person separation index, 3.08), content validity (item separation, 10.09) and item reliability (0.99). Moreover, the CVAQC-CN was unidimensional and had no item bias. The person–item map indicated good targeting of item difficulty to person ability. The CVAQC-CN had moderate correlations between CS (−0.53, p
- Subjects :
- China
medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity
Adolescent
genetic structures
media_common.quotation_subject
Visual impairment
Visual Acuity
Vision, Low
Audiology
behavioral disciplines and activities
Disability Evaluation
03 medical and health sciences
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Sickness Impact Profile
Prevalence
medicine
Content validity
Humans
Contrast (vision)
Child
Reliability (statistics)
media_common
Rasch model
business.industry
Reproducibility of Results
Missing data
Sensory Systems
Cognitive test
Ophthalmology
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
medicine.symptom
business
Visually Impaired Persons
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682079 and 00071161
- Volume :
- 101
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....42daa875713f754c089e69f3ec9e1b1b