Designing a Tool to Assessment

The aim of the current research was to design a tool to measure "problems of psychological treatment of children with neurodevelopmental disorders in the school environment" based on the lived experience of occupational therapists in autism centers in Shiraz.

The research method is a mixed exploratory type of instrumental development and sampling was done in the qualitative part by the theoretical saturation method (saturation in the 21st interview) and in the quantitative part by a targeted method (the number of 66 people twice as many as the items of the tool), as a result of which the participants of each Two parts of the research were formed by 87 occupational therapists from autism centers in Shiraz. In order to collect data in the qualitative part of the semi-structured interview and in the quantitative part of the compiled tool, the achievement of the qualitative part was used as the basis of the research, and in this way, the qualitative part was mixed with the quantitative part. The data of the qualitative part were collected in the spring of 2022 and the data of the quantitative part were collected in the autumn of 2022. The method of data analysis was theme analysis, calculation of CVR, CVI, IS, DP (in qualitative part) and IC (in quantitative part).

Findings from the qualitative part by examining the text of the interviews showed the number of 19 components, based on which the initial pool was prepared with 40 items. After providing the initial pool of items to the experts, the findings of the CVI and CVR review showed that 7 items were not of the required quality according to the experts and were removed. For IS, DP and IC, values higher than 1.5, 1 and 0.7 were obtained for all the remaining 33 items, respectively.

In general, it can be said that the 40-item tool compiled in the qualitative section; In the quantitative part, it was converted into 33-items and this 33-item form had the necessary conditions to be examined at the level of the main sample of the target group, and it can be used in a large sample of the target group to achieve the final structure and norm scores.