Reliability of Chinese Version of Weekly Calendar Planning Activity for an Executive Function Assessment in College Students / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the intrarater and interrater reliability of Chinese version of Weekly Calendar Planning Activity (WCPA-C) as evaluating the executive function in college students. Methods:From August to November, 2019, 55 college students aged 18 to 30 participated in this study. One rater evaluated all the subjects with WCPA-C and retested two weeks later. Two raters evaluated 31 of the subjects with WCPA-C. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated for intrarater and interrater. Results:Two cases dropped out. The ICCs of the indexes were 0.45 to 0.89 for intrarater excepted Total Errors, and they were better from the second assessment than the first time. The ICC for interrater was 0.84 to 1.00. Conclusion:WCPA-C is well interrater reliable for the healthy college students in China, however, there may be learning effect as interval of two weeks.