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ArticleTopics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation2022

Establishing Content Validity Evidence of the Pittsburgh Impairment Testing Tool (PITT) for Adults With Spina Bifida.

Alan Cuevas Villagomez, Gina McKernan, Amy J Houtrow, Brad E Dicianno

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Article in Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alan Cuevas VillagomezSchool of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Gina McKernanVeterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Amy J HoutrowDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Brad E DiciannoVeterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
University of Pittsburgh · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Current scales to measure motor impairment in adults with spina bifida (SB) are limited by their complexity, variable interpretation (i.e., subjectively defined impairment levels), or inclusion of muscles groups that are not always practical to test in a clinical setting. Objectives: A novel motor impairment tool for adults with SB was evaluated for content validity. The tool uses findings from the manual muscle testing of hip flexion and knee extension to categorize individuals into four motor impairment groups. Methods: Expert feedback was obtained on the tool, and content validity was measured using Lawshe's content validity ratio (CVR) with critical values recommended by Ayre and Scally. Data from phase 1 and phase 2 were used to revise the survey and calculate the CVR of the tool, respectively (benchmark: CVR ≥ 0.636). Results: Of the 26 experts recruited, 17 received the survey and 15 participated in either phase 1 ( Conclusion: The high content validity, coupled with expert feedback, suggests the tool may give clinicians and researchers a practical method of classifying an individual's extent of motor impairment.

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Spinal Cord InjuriesSpinal DysraphismAdultHumansSurveys and Questionnairesmotor skillsneurologic examinationspinal dysraphismsurveys and questionnaires

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PMID36017127
PMCPMC9394068
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