Studying the reliability and validity of the Mongolian version of the Child Occupational Self-Assessment in healthy children

Abstract

Background: Child Occupational Self-Assessment (COSA) allows children to assess their own abilities and values. The reliability and validity of the Mongolian version of this assessment needs to be investigated in healthy children. Aim: The purpose is to determine whether healthy children can reliably use the Mongolian version of COSA to correctly assess their occupational competencies. Material and Methods: A total of 80 children (male 47, female 33, mean 10.0) born in 2008-2013. The data were analyzed using SPSS 23 software. Results:The internal validity between the scales was acceptable, as the Cronbach’s alpha coefÏcient of the part of occupational competence was 0.939, of values scale was 0.954. Occupational competence items were correlated with 12 items of competence and 9 items of values (r=0.640, Р<0.05). As for items of values, 10 items were correlated with items of values and 10 items of competence (r=0.621, P<0.05). To the competence items 7.35% of the participants of this study gave answers “I have a big problem doing this “, 10.6% “I have a big problem doing this “, 32.7% “I do this ok “, and 49.2% “I am really good at doing this” (Table 1). As for values items, 9.05% answered “Not really important to me”, 20.2% “Important to me”, 24.9% “Really important to me”, and 45.7% “Most important of all to me”. Conclusion: The results of the study indicate that the responses to the COSA also indicate that children can use the COSA to explain their own needs, concerns, and difÏculties to others. Therefore, this assessment allows occupational therapists to better understand the child’s self-evaluations, such as the level of occupational competencies and the values.