Feasibility and content validity of the PERF-FIT test battery to assess movement skills, agility and power among children in low-resource settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous movement skills and physical fitness tests have been developed for children in high-income countries. However, adaptation of these tests to low-resource settings has been slow and norms are still unavailable for children living in low-income communities. The aim of this paper was to describe the development and validation of the Performance and Fitness (PERF-FIT) test battery, a new test to assess motor skill-related physical fitness in children in low-resource settings.

Method

The PERF-FIT test was developed in a stepwise manner. This involved defining the relevant domains of the construct of interest and selecting and evaluating test items. The Content Validity Index (CVI) was used to estimate content validity. Following development of the PERF-FIT test

SUBMITTER: Smits-Engelsman BCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7372755 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature