Pamela Scorza|Anne Stevenson|Glorisa Canino|Christine Mushashi|Fredrick Kanyanganzi|Morris Munyanah|Theresa S. Betancourt
Validation of the “World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule for Children, WHODAS-Child” in Rwanda
University of Puerto Rico System|Partners In Health|Partners In Health|Partners In Health
world health organization disability assessment schedule children whodaschild disability assessment instrument based whos international classification functioning disability health children youth modified original adult version specifically use children aim study assess whodaschild structure metric properties community sample children without reported psychosocial problems rural rwandathe whodaschild first translated kinyarwanda detailed committee translation process backtranslation cognitive interviewing used assess comprehension translated items testretest reliability assessed group 64 children translated whodaschild administered final sample 367 children southern kayonza district rural southeastern rwanda within larger psychosocial assessment battery latent structure assessed confirmatory factor analysis reliability evaluated terms internal consistency cronbachs alpha testretest reliability pearsons correlation coefficient construct validity explored examining convergence whodaschild scores mental disorder status divergence whodaschild scores protective factors prosocial behaviors concordance parent child scores also assessedthe sixfactor structure whodaschild confirmed population sample rwandan children testretest interrater reliability high r 83 icc 88 whodaschild scores moderately positively correlated presence depression r 42 p001 posttraumatic stress disorder r 31 p001 moderately negatively correlated prosocial behaviors r 47 p001 kinyarwanda version whodaschild found reliable acceptable selfreport tool assessment functional impairment among children largely referred psychosocial problems study district rural rwanda research lowresource settings general populations recommended