Construction et validation d’un questionnaire d’évaluation des compétences cognitives et de l’état affectif et émotionnel des personnes polyhandicapées : l’Évaluation–Cognition–Polyhandicap (ECP)

Objectives

Assessment of the cognitive skills, affective and emotional state of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) is becoming increasingly important as targeted and appropriate care is being offered to them. However, tools specifically adapted are rare. The ECP, presented here, proposes to overcome this lack.

Persons and method

The construction of the ECP was done in three successive stages with 18, 71 and 91 people with PIMD. At each stage, 3 protocols documented in hetero evaluation for each person allowed the elaboration of items and their metrological analysis (correlational and factor analyses in particular).

Results

During the final stage, with a sample of 273 protocols (91 people), age-specific standardizations were performed and metrological analyses (discriminating fineness, reliability and validity) conducted show that the ECP meets the expectations.

Conclusion

The ECP allows the users to build cognitive profiles and to collect clinical data, leading to shared observations. Thus, the ECP offers inter-observer analyses of inter- and intra-individual variability of skills among people with PIMD.