The second part
of the PEDI quantifies the help provided by the caregiver
to the child to accomplish tasks of: self-care, mobility and
social function. In this part of the test, the assistance is
evaluated on an ordinal scale, including categories: 0 (total
assistance), 1 (maximum assistance), 2 (moderate assistance),
3 (minimal assistance), 4 (supervision) and 5 (independent).
The test manual provides specific criteria for scoring each
item. In this study we used the raw data from the PEDI