Inter-observer reliability of the "Assessment of Motor Repertoire - 3 to 5 Months" based on video recordings of infants

Early Human Development

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 297-302

  Fjørtoft, Toril ^a,d   Einspieler, Christa ^b   Adde, Lars ^a,c   Strand, Liv Inger ^d  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Department of Laboratory Medicine   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Infants; Inter observer reliability; Quality of movement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 64749108505     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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