AUTHOR=Romero-Ayuso Dulce , Jorquera-Cabrera Sara , Segura-Fragoso Antonio , Toledano-González Abel , Rodríguez-Martínez M. Carmen , Triviño-Juárez José Matías 

TITLE=Assessment of Sensory Processing and Executive Functions in Childhood: Development, Reliability, and Validity of the EPYFEI

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pediatrics

VOLUME=Volume 6 - 2018

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2018.00071

DOI=10.3389/fped.2018.00071

ISSN=2296-2360

ABSTRACT=The aim of this study is to present the psychometric properties of a questionnaire whose objective is to assess the sensory processing and executive functions of children aged between 3 and 11, which was designed to be fillied in by their parents or carers. The Evaluation of Sensory Processing and Executive Functions in Childhood (EPYFEI) was completed by a sample of 1385 parents (n=1385) of children aged between 3 and 11 from Spain. An explanatory factorial analysis was then carried out, which showed four principal factors: 1) executive attention and work memory; emotional self-regulation; 3) propioceptive and vestibular sensory processing, and 4) tactile processing and alert regulation. The reliability of the analysis was high for the set of the questionnaire and the factors of which it is composed. The results obtained provide evidence regarding the the potetial usefulness of the EPYFEI in clinical contexts and for the early detection of neurodevelopment disorders, in which there may be a lack as regards executive functions and sensory processing.