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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate cross-regional validity of the Assessment of Motor and
Process Skills (AMPS) with a specific focus on valid use with Middle Europeans.
Descriptive cross-regional validation study. PARTICIPANTS: A total of
1346 participants from Middle Europe and 144,143 participants from North America,
UK/Ireland, the Nordic Countries, other Europe, Australia/New Zealand and Asia,
between the ages of 3 and 103 years, in good health and with a variety of
diagnoses, were selected from the AMPS database. METHODS: Many-facet Rasch
analysis was used to analyse participant raw data, and effect sizes were used to
evaluate for differential item functioning. Evaluation for differential test
functioning was also implemented. RESULTS: None of the 20 activity of daily
living process items, and only one of the activity of daily living motor items
demonstrated differential item functioning. The activity of daily living motor
item Aligns exceeded the significant effect size criterion of +/- 0.55 logit, but
the significant differential item functioning did not lead to differential test
functioning (i.e. all measures fell within the 95% confidence bands). CONCLUSION:
This study provides further evidence of validity of the AMPS when used to
evaluate quality of daily living performance across world regions. The AMPS
measures can be used as objective indices of activity of daily living ability in
rehabilitation settings and in international collaborative research related to
activity of daily living task performance.

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