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