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Sabina Barrios-Fernández, Margarita Gozalo, Andres García-Gómez, Jorge Carlos-Vivas, and Dulce Romero-Ayuso

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Una nueva herramienta para evaluar las actividades básicas de la vida diaria en Preescolares españoles

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A Novel Tool to Assess Basic Activities of Daily Living in Spanish Preschoolers

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children

Year of publication

2021

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activities of daily living, executive function, child, evaluation, and assessment

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https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060496

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Background: Basic activities of daily living (BADLs) are those related to self-care. Their performance depends on the development of sensorimotor and cognitive skills, as well as social and environmental aspects. A good performance in BADLs is required for independence and social participation, so they play an important role in early education and early care. We aim to create a tool for BADLs assessment for Spanish preschoolers. Methods: The tool was administered to 303 participants (48.5% boys and 51.5% girls) between three and six years of age. Analyses to find out the factorial structure and internal consistency was carried out. Results: The instrument was composed of 84 items in four scales (eating, personal hygiene, dressing, and daily functioning) with nine factors (oral sensitivity, good manners, manual dexterity, brushing teeth, toilet management, hygiene and grooming, dressing, higher-order and core executive function). Reliability values were from acceptable to preferred (0.74–0.94). Conclusions: The instrument could be useful and shows preliminary good indicators in construct validity and reliability.

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Sabina Barrios-Fernández, Margarita Gozalo, Andres García-Gómez, Jorge Carlos-Vivas, and Dulce Romero-Ayuso

Article title in Spanish

Una nueva herramienta para evaluar las actividades básicas de la vida diaria en Preescolares españoles

Article title in English

A Novel Tool to Assess Basic Activities of Daily Living in Spanish Preschoolers

Name of journal

children

Year of publication

2021

Volume of the journal

Pages of the journal

Keywords

activities of daily living, executive function, child, evaluation, and assessment

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060496

Summary in Spanish

Summary in English

Background: Basic activities of daily living (BADLs) are those related to self-care. Their performance depends on the development of sensorimotor and cognitive skills, as well as social and environmental aspects. A good performance in BADLs is required for independence and social participation, so they play an important role in early education and early care. We aim to create a tool for BADLs assessment for Spanish preschoolers. Methods: The tool was administered to 303 participants (48.5% boys and 51.5% girls) between three and six years of age. Analyses to find out the factorial structure and internal consistency was carried out. Results: The instrument was composed of 84 items in four scales (eating, personal hygiene, dressing, and daily functioning) with nine factors (oral sensitivity, good manners, manual dexterity, brushing teeth, toilet management, hygiene and grooming, dressing, higher-order and core executive function). Reliability values were from acceptable to preferred (0.74–0.94). Conclusions: The instrument could be useful and shows preliminary good indicators in construct validity and reliability.

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Una nueva herramienta para evaluar las actividades básicas de la vida diaria en Preescolares españoles


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Author´s name

Sabina Barrios-Fernández, Margarita Gozalo, Andres García-Gómez, Jorge Carlos-Vivas, and Dulce Romero-Ayuso

Article title in Spanish

Una nueva herramienta para evaluar las actividades básicas de la vida diaria en Preescolares españoles

Article title in English

A Novel Tool to Assess Basic Activities of Daily Living in Spanish Preschoolers

Name of journal

children

Year of publication

2021

Volume of the journal

Pages of the journal

Keywords

activities of daily living, executive function, child, evaluation, and assessment

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060496

Summary in Spanish

Summary in English

Background: Basic activities of daily living (BADLs) are those related to self-care. Their performance depends on the development of sensorimotor and cognitive skills, as well as social and environmental aspects. A good performance in BADLs is required for independence and social participation, so they play an important role in early education and early care. We aim to create a tool for BADLs assessment for Spanish preschoolers. Methods: The tool was administered to 303 participants (48.5% boys and 51.5% girls) between three and six years of age. Analyses to find out the factorial structure and internal consistency was carried out. Results: The instrument was composed of 84 items in four scales (eating, personal hygiene, dressing, and daily functioning) with nine factors (oral sensitivity, good manners, manual dexterity, brushing teeth, toilet management, hygiene and grooming, dressing, higher-order and core executive function). Reliability values were from acceptable to preferred (0.74–0.94). Conclusions: The instrument could be useful and shows preliminary good indicators in construct validity and reliability.

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