Establishing the Cultural Equivalence of the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM) for Use in Singapore.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite using the same language, the majority of the YC-PEM items needed modification to be relevant to the Singapore culture. Cultural adaptation of the YC-PEM is important because there are cultural differences in children's participation and their environments, as well as the way people understand words.
PMID: 26642891 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Physical Therapy - December 7, 2015 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Lim CY, Law M, Khetani M, Pollock N, Rosenbaum P Tags: Phys Occup Ther Pediatr Source Type: research