Adaptation to Spanish and Validity by Wearable Sensors of the Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with Spinal Cord Injury

ABSTRACT

No Spanish-language tool exists to assess physical activity in people with spinal cord injuries. This work aimed to provide a valid Spanish version of the Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with Spinal Cord Injury (PARA-SCI). It was conducted in three phases. First, translation and cross-cultural adaptation. Second, a reliability assessment through inter-rater reliability (n = 25) and test – retest reliability (n = 50). Third, validity assessment, comparing PARA-SCI-Spanish and wearable sensors (n = 13), as well as analyzing PARA-SCI-Spanish results between known groups (n = 235). Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.36 to 0.95. The correlations between the wearable sensors and the PARA-SCI-Spanish were r = 0.67, p = .005 (moderate to vigorous physical activity) and r = 0.62, p = .01 (total activity). The known-groups analyses demonstrated differences in accord with previous research and not differing according to the interview mode. The PARA-SCI-Spanish was a reliable and valid tool in telephone and face-to-face interviews.

KEYWORDS:

• leisure time physical activity
• PARA-SCI
• assessment
• exercise
• IMU

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank László Demkó (SCI Center, Research Balgrist University Hospital. Zurich) for his collaboration in data analysis collected by wearable sensors, as well as those who participated unselfishly as translators or SCI experts in phase 1 of this work.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/1091367X.2023.2192194