Development of the Korean Version of the Drooling Infants and Preschoolers Scale

Objective. This study is aimed at translating and cross-culturally adapting the Drooling Infants Preschoolers Scale (DRIPS) into Korean cultural context examine content validity reliability of version, which referred as K-DRIPS. Methods. An iterative forward-backward translation sequence DRIPS was performed by 20 health professional experts (i.e., occupational therapists (OTs) professors) with more than 10 years experience. The subjects were 77 children cerebral palsy (CP) exhibiting drooling symptoms aged 2-7 years. They recruited from two children’s rehabilitation hospitals in Korea completed internal consistency K-DRIPS items examined. Results. assessment adequately adapted Korea. All exhibited good (content ratio range 4.00-4.95) (Cronbach’s α = 0.98 ). Conclusion. findings indicated that successfully to demonstrated psychometric properties. instrument could be used for tool disabilities.