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The Participation Scale is an 18-item interview-based scale that
measures social participation. In Indonesia, problems were reported with
conducting the Participation Scale interview. To address these, a simplified
version of the Participation Scale was developed and tested in Jakarta and
Makassar, Indonesia. METHODS: People with different kinds of disability were
interviewed with the original Participation Scale and the simplified version and
we also asked their opinion about the scale. Fifty people without disabilities
were included to establish the "normal" score for social participation. The
following psychometric properties were calculated: internal consistency,
criterion validity, floor and ceiling effects and interpretability. Internal
consistency was calculated using Cronbach's alpha (>0.70). Criterion validity was
calculated for the continuous participation scores using Spearman's rank
correlation (0.77 [p < 0.0001]). RESULTS: Floor and ceiling effects were not
present. The control group was used to interpret the quantitative scores.
Sensitivity and specificity were 0.88 and 0.80, respectively. The observations
and feedback during interviews showed that there were still difficulties when
using the simplified version. CONCLUSION: The psychometric properties of the
simplified instrument are good, but our findings showed that even the simplified
version of the Participation Scale still remains difficult to understand for
people with a low education level. Further work on the simplification of this
instrument is necessary.

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