Highlights
- •Providers benefit from developmental guidelines to educate on skill mastery.
- •Expert raters established content validity of skill assessment tool for providers.
- •Findings suggest tool items are relevant, clear, and developmentally-appropriate.
- •Psychosocial domains rated as highly relevant and clear, provide important context.
Abstract
Purpose
The aim of this study was to establish content validity of a developmentally based
assessment tool of readiness for medical independence for specialty providers.
Design and methods
The validation process used expert panel evaluation to assess the items believed to
measure the desired content in the nine age-based scales within the RAISE (Readiness
Assessment of Independence for Specialty Encounters) tool. Experts in child development
and transition rated items on relevance, clarity and developmental appropriateness
via electronic survey. Statistical analyses included calculation of interrater agreement
(IRA), content validity indices (CVIs), and factorial validity indices (FVI).
Results
A total of 135 items were rated by 36 experts. Mean I-CVIs for 123 items across nine
developmental scales met criteria for retention, ranging from 0.76 (threshold) to
1.00 (excellent). Mean I-CVIs for all 25 items across the five psychosocial stressor
scales met criteria for retention, ranging from 0.92 to 1.00 (excellent).
Conclusions
Findings from the current content validation study suggest that items on the revised
RAISE tool are relevant, clear, and developmentally-appropriate as rated by experts
in the fields of child development and transition. The tool, consisting of age based
scales (ages birth-2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–11, 12–13, 14–15, 16–17, 18–21), is shown to
have content validity of the retained items meeting criteria.
Practice implications
With content validity of the RAISE tool established by experts, this developmentally
based assessment tool can be integrated into practice to assist providers in educating
patients around skills of medical independence which could improve transition outcomes.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: April 09, 2021
Accepted:
March 22,
2021
Received in revised form:
March 22,
2021
Received:
December 14,
2020
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