An instrument for tongue performance assessment in activities associated with digital games: content and construct validity
Validade de conteúdo e construto de um instrumento de avaliação de desempenho da língua em atividades associadas a jogos digitais
Renata Maria Moreira Moraes Furlan; Guilherme André Santana; Andréa Rodrigues Motta; Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas
Abstract
Purpose: to analyze the content and construct validity of an instrument for tongue performance assessment in activities associated with digital games.
Methods: to analyze content validity, ten speech-language pathologists answered a questionnaire in which each item of the instrument and the set of items were judged as to its representativeness. The content validity index and the modified Kappa statistics were calculated. To analyze construct validity, 20 participants, with age between 8 and 13 years, (10 children with weak tongues and 10 children with normal tongue strength) performed a game activity with the T-Station, involving 12 targets with 2 N of strength and 5 s of time for sustained contraction for each target. The performance was compared, for each item of the instrument, between groups.
Results: most of the items obtained satisfactory score according to the speech-language pathologist's evaluation. Children with reduced tongue force had a poorer performance than those with normal tongue force, with a statistically significant difference in three items of the instrument.
Conclusion: the instrument proved to be valid as a method for evaluating performance in activities associated with the T-Station.
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Objetivo: analisar a validade de conteúdo e de construto de um instrumento de avaliação do desempenho da língua em atividades associadas a jogos digitais.
Métodos: para a análise da validade de conteúdo, dez fonoaudiólogas responderam a um questionário em que cada item do instrumento e o conjunto de itens foram julgados quanto à sua representatividade. Foram calculados o índice de validade de conteúdo e a estatística Kappa modificada. Para análise da validade de construto, 20 participantes, com idade entre 8 e 13 anos, (10 crianças com língua fraca e 10 crianças com força lingual normal) realizaram uma atividade lúdica com o T-Station, envolvendo 12 alvos com 2 N de força e 5 s de tempo de contração sustentada para cada alvo. O desempenho foi comparado, para cada item do instrumento, entre os grupos.
Resultados: a maioria dos itens obteve pontuação satisfatória de acordo com a avaliação das fonoaudiólogas. As crianças com força lingual reduzida apresentaram desempenho pior do que aquelas com força lingual normal, com diferença estatisticamente significante em três itens do instrumento.
Conclusão: o instrumento se mostrou válido como método para avaliação do desempenho em atividades associadas ao T-Station.
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Submitted date:
10/14/2021
Accepted date:
11/08/2021
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