Acta Gymnica 2020, 50(4):157-163 | DOI: 10.5507/ag.2020.017

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of a semi-structured interview Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with Spinal Cord Injury in persons with paraplegia

Jarmila Štěpánová, Lukáš Jakubec, Kateřina Neumannová, Radka Čiháková, Michaela Lehnertová, Martin Kudláček
Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Background: In the Czech Republic a standardized measuring method has not been applied yet in order to monitor the amount and intensity of physical activity of persons with spinal cord injury.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to translate, adapt and validate administration and scoring manual of the semi-structured interview Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with Spinal Cord Injury (PARA-SCI), focused on the subjective perception of the amount of physical activity of persons with paraplegia.

Methods: To determine the criterion validity of the research tool, we compared data from 53 people with paraplegia collected through PARA-SCI interviews and data from the ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer, which respondents wore on their non-dominant wrist. We evaluated the test-retest reliability among 39 subjects with paraplegia, which consists in administering the questionnaire on two occasions separated by a time interval one week.

Results: : In the validity study, the correlation between data for overall physical activity over three days form accelerometers and PARA-SCI interviews showed the strong level of correlation strength (r = .58, p < .001). The intraclass correlation between data for overall physical activity over three days from two PARA-SCI interviews showed a moderate level of test-retest reliability (r = .70, p < .001). The intraclass correlations ranged from .38 to .80 for the various PARA-SCI activity categories and intensities.

Conclusions: A Czech version of the semi-structured interview PARA-SCI was standardised and can be used by physiotherapists, nutrition therapists and sports educators from the field of adapted physical activities in the Czech Republic.

Keywords: disability, measurement, standardization, wheelchair users, physical activity

Received: March 30, 2019; Revised: November 20, 2020; Accepted: November 24, 2020; Prepublished online: January 7, 2021; Published: January 19, 2021  Show citation

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Štěpánová, J., Jakubec, L., Neumannová, K., Čiháková, R., Lehnertová, M., & Kudláček, M. (2020). Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of a semi-structured interview Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with Spinal Cord Injury in persons with paraplegia. Acta Gymnica, 50(4), 157-163. doi: 10.5507/ag.2020.017
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