Research ArticleMeasurement of time processing ability and daily time management in children with disabilities
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Participants
The participants in this study were children who received outpatient services from paediatric habilitation centers all over Sweden, a convenience sample of children between 6 and 11 years of age with ADHD, ASD, mild or moderate ID, myelomeningocele (MMC) or cerebral palsy (CP) were included. Informed consent was obtained from parents and 118 children. The distributions of the participants’ age and diagnosis are presented in Table 1.
Outcome measures
The children rated their autonomy in daily routines with the
Results
All three instruments used demonstrated acceptable internal consistency in this sample (α = .77–.79). The correlation analyses testing the first hypothesis showed a significant relation (r = 0.306, p < .001) and the regression analysis indicated that the child's self-rating of autonomy could explain 9.4% of the variation in TPA (R2 = .094, SE = 1.783, β = .306, p < .001). The testing of the second hypothesis revealed that the relation between the TPA and the parents’ ratings of the child's
Discussion
This study demonstrated that the children's level of TPA, as measured by KaTid, was related to the children's self-rated autonomy and daily TM as rated by parents. The results indicate that the instrument KaTid can contribute to the intervention process in planning and evaluating interventions designed to facilitate daily TM in children with disabilities.
First, the conclusion drawn must be related to methodological limitations of the study. The heterogeneity of the participants might be
Acknowledgments
First, we thank all 118 children and their families. The funding from Clas Groschinskys Minnesfond and Center for Clinical Research Dalarna supported the education of the professionals assisting in this study. We also thank the occupational therapists and teachers for collecting data. We are grateful to Nilbild AB for letting us use their pictures in KaTid. Thanks also go to Specialpedagogiska Institutet, SIH Läromedel, Umeå, for permission to use pictures originating from ”Bildbanken,” with
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