Abstract
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a developmental disorder affecting motor coordination skills, that frequently persists into adolescence and adulthood. Despite this, very few instruments exist to identify DCD in this population, and none of them are available for Spanish young adults. The purpose of this study was to cross-culturally adapt and preliminarily validate the Adolescents and Adults Coordination Questionnaire (AAC-Q) into European Spanish. The AAC-Q was translated and adapted following international recommendations, including: (a) two independent forward translations; (b) synthesis and reconciliation; (c) expert committee review; and (d) a comprehensibility test. In addition, the internal consistency and homogeneity were examined using a sample of 100 Spanish higher education students. Cultural equivalence and idiomatic differences were addressed to produce the AAC-Q-ES. Findings show that the AAC-Q-ES is a cross-culturally adapted instrument with good preliminary reliability indicators in Spanish young adults (Cronbach’s α = 0.74; corrected item-total correlations = 0.217–0.504).
Highlights
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) has an estimated prevalence of 5–6%in school-aged children worldwide, but it persists as well during adolescence and adulthood [1]
In order to get a diagnosis of DCD, the person has to be assessed for the four DSM-5 DCD diagnosis criteria (A = deficits in the motor coordination skills; B = persistent and significant impact of motor deficits in daily living performance; C = early onset of symptoms; D = the motor skills deficits are not better explained by intellectual, developmental, physical or neurological conditions) [13], Int
Most of items were considered easy to translate into European Spanish by the two translators and did not need a significant conceptual modification in the forward translation
Summary
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) has an estimated prevalence of 5–6%in school-aged children worldwide, but it persists as well during adolescence and adulthood [1]. Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) has an estimated prevalence of 5–6%. It has been reported that young adults with coordination difficulties have higher prevalence of internal and social problems, poorer physical health and lower feelings of quality of life than their typically developing peers and they internalize these problems [6,7,8,9]. In order to get a diagnosis of DCD, the person has to be assessed for the four DSM-5 DCD diagnosis criteria (A = deficits in the motor coordination skills; B = persistent and significant impact of motor deficits in daily living performance; C = early onset of symptoms; D = the motor skills deficits are not better explained by intellectual, developmental, physical or neurological conditions) [13], Int. J.
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