Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Turkish version of impact on family scale: a study of reliability and validity | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Turkish version of impact on family scale a study of reliability and validity Nilgun Bek I Engin Simsek Suat Erel Yavuz Yakut and Fatma Uygur Address Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Faculty of Health Sciences Hacettepe University Ankara Turkey Email Nilgun Bek - nilbek@ I Engin Simsek - iengin@ Suat Erel - erelsuat@ Yavuz Yakut - yyakut@ Fatma Uygur - fztuygur@ Corresponding author Published 28 January 2009 Received 20 November 2007 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 4 doi 1477-7525-7-4 Accepted 28 January 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 4 2009 Bek et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Although there is a considerably high prevalence of developmental disorders in Turkey there are not many assessment tools related to evaluating the impact of these children on their family. The aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Impact on Family Scale IPFAM a health related quality of life measurement to be utilized in clinical trials health care services research and evaluation. Methods Caregivers of 85 children with developmental disabilities answered the questionnaire and 65 of them answered it twice with a one week interval. The reliability of the measurement was assessed by Cronbach s alpha coefficient and with intraclass correlation coefficient ICC for test-retest reliability. Construct validity was assessed by calculating the correlation between total impact score of IPFAM WeeFIM and the physiotherapists evaluation via Visual Analogue Scale .
