Development and Validation of a Gujarati Questionnaire for Evaluating Levels of Awareness, Acceptance, Socio-Economic Stress & Expectations from Physiotherapy Services in Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Abstract

Parents of children with cerebral palsy experience anxiety, depression, guilt and low self-esteem, frustration,

low matrimonial and personal satisfaction etc. While planning interventions for the child with cerebral palsy,

physiotherapist should consider physical and psychological health of caregivers, influence of social support,

family functioning etc. This study gives an overview of the procedure for development and validation of a

Gujarati questionnaire to evaluate levels of awareness, acceptance, stress & expectations from physiotherapy

services through two-stage process. At the 1st stage domain determination, item generation and instrument

formation was done. In the 2nd stage, face and content validation was done using consensus method by a

group of 10 experts. As a result, questionnaire having 9 dimensions and 84 items with acceptable levels of

validity was developed.