Chinese version of the PaArticular Scales
The PaArticular Scales consist of 35 items: The Activity subscale has 24
items, and the Participation subscale has 11 items. As an organized
face-to-face questionnaire to evaluate activity limitations and
participation restrictions, before the interview, the interviewer
emphasized that the participants must consider their current
environment, not hypothetical environments or their former home
environment. In terms of reliability, the Cronbach’s α values of
the internal consistency of the Activity subscale and the Participation
subscale were .96 and .92, respectively, and the McDonald’s ωtotal were .98 and .95, respectively, indicating the high internal
consistency. In terms of validity, the Pearson correlation coefficients
of the 2 subscales (the Activity subscale and the Participation
subscale) using the criterion validity of the visual analogue scale of
the EQ-5D, which is one of the most frequently used generic health
status measurement tools, demonstrated good validity and reliability at
-.40 (p > .001) and -.30 (p >
.001), respectively.12