Assessing Movement Competence and Screening for Injury Risk in 8–12-year-Old Children: Reliability of the Child-Focused Injury Risk Screening Tool (ChildFIRST). Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Miller, Matthew B.; Jimenez-Garcia, John Alexander; Hong, Chang Ki; DeMont, Richard
• Is Part Of: Measurement in physical education and exercise science. Volume 24:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 205
• Page End: 217
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Reliability -- Movement Competence -- Krippendorf's Alpha -- Physical Literacy -- Injury Prevention; Physical fitness -- Testing -- Periodicals; Physical education and training -- Statistical methods -- Periodicals; Physical education and training -- Research -- Periodicals; 613.7
• DOI: 10.1080/1091367X.2020.1781129
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1091-367X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Child-Focused Injury Risk Screening Tool (ChildFIRST) is a process-based assessment including 10 movement skills with 4 associated evaluation criteria. The ChildFIRST has been validated by a group of experts to evaluate movement competence and injury risk in 8–12-year-olds. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the reliability of the ChildFIRST. Twelve college-aged subjects participants attended a 1-hr training session. To evaluate inter-rater reliability, the participants rated 6 videos per movement, 60 videos in total. To evaluate intra-rater reliability, the participants returned after 7 days to rate the same videos. Movement skill inter-rater reliability ranged from −0.306 to 9.380 ICC, intra-rater reliability ranged from −0.386 to 0.881 ICC. Evaluation criteria inter-rater reliability ranged from −0.04 to 0.835 Kα and 52–100% agreement, intra-rater reliability ranged from −0.328 to 0.303 Cohen's K and 45.8–98.6% agreement. The ChildFIRST demonstrates moderate-to-excellent inter-rater reliability for 9 of 10 movement skills, while intra-rater reliability and overall evaluation criteria reliability range from good to poor.