Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the Oxford Participation and Activities Questionnaire in Older People.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Activities and participation play important roles in the maintenance of healthy aging. The maintenance of these factors optimizes social life to increase the quality of life with aging. However, there is a lack of questionnaires in Turkish to evaluate activity and participation among older people. This study translated and cross-culturally adapted the Oxford Participation and Activities Questionnaire (Ox-PAQ) into Turkish and investigated its psychometric properties in the older adult population.

Methods

The Turkish version of the Ox-PAQ was produced after a translation and back-translation process. The Ox-PAQ was administered to 230 and 60 individuals for construct validity and reliability analyses, respectively. To assess the test-retest reliability of the Turki

SUBMITTER: Karapinar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7781958 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature