A pilot study of quality of life in children with cerebral palsy after intensive body weight-supported treadmill training

Pediatric Physical Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-52

  Dieruf, Kathy ^a,c   Burtner, Patricia A ^a   Provost, Beth ^a   Phillips, John ^a   Bernitsky Beddingfield, Ann ^a   Sullivan, Katherine J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARENT; PEDIATRIC PHYSIOTHERAPY; PEDIATRIC QUALITY OF LIFE INVENTORY; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTIC PARESIS; TREADMILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650305570     PISSN: 08985669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEP.0b013e31818ec835     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. World Health Organization. International classification of functioning, disability and health. 2001. Available at: http://www.who.int/ classifications/icf/en/. Retrieved June 2008.
2. Berrin SJ, Malcarne VL, Varni JW, et al. Pain, fatigue, and school functioning in children with cerebral palsy: a path-analytic model. J Pediatr Psychol 2006;32:330-337.
3. Grill L, Feldman DE, Majnemer A, et al. Associations between a functional independence measure (WeeFIM) and the pediatric quality of life inventory (PedsQL4.0) in young children with physical disabilities. Qual Life Res. 2006;15:1023-1031.
4. Varni JW, Burwinkle TM, Katz ER, et al. The PedsQL in pediatric cancer: reliability and validity of the Pediatric Quality of life Inventory Generic Core Scales, Multidimensional Fatigue Scale and Cancer Module. Cancer. 2002;94:2090-2106.
5. Varni JW, Burwinkle TM, Sherman SA, et al. The PedsQL in pediatric cerebral palsy: reliability, validity, and sensitivity of the Generic Core Scales and Cerebral Palsy Module. Dev Med Child Neurol 2006;48: 442-449.
6. Vitale MG, Levy DE, Moskowitz AJ, et al. Capturing quality of life in pediatric orthopaedics: two recent measures compared. J Pediatr Or-thop. 2001;21:629-635.
7. Pirpiris M, Gates PE, McCarthy JJ, et al. Function and well-being in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy. J Pediatr Orthop. 2006;26: 119-124.
8. Vargus-Adams J. Health-related quality of life in childhood cerebral palsy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86:940-945.
9. Boyd R, Hays RM. Outcome measurement of effectiveness of botuli-num toxin type A in children with cerebral palsy: an ICIDH-2 approach. Eur] Neurol 2001;8(suppl 5):167-177.
10. Livingston MH, Rosenbaum PL, Russell DJ, et al. Quality of life among adolescents with cerebral palsy: what does the literature tell us? Dev Med Child Neurol 2007;49:225-231.
11. Theunissen NCM, Vogels TGC, Koopman HM, et al. The proxy problem: child report versus parent report in health-related quality of life research. Qual Life Res. 1998;7:387-397.
12. Meeske K, Katz ER, Palmer SN, et al. Parent proxy-reported health related quality of life and fatigue in pediatric patients diagnosed with brain tumors and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer. 2004;101: 2116-2125.
13. Oeffinger D, Gorton G, Bagley A, et al. Outcome assessments in children with cerebral palsy, part I: descriptive characteristics of GMFCS levels I to III. Dev Med Child Neurol 2007;49:172-180.
14. Varni JW, Seid M, Kurtin PS. PedsQL 4.0: reliability and validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory version 4.0 generic core scales in healthy and patient populations. Med Care. 2001;39:800-812.
15. Eiser C, Morse R. Can parents rate their child's health-related quality of life? Results of a systematic review. Qual Life Res. 2001;10:347-357.
16. Varni JW, Burwinkle TM, Sherman SA, et al. Health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: hearing the voices of the children. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2005;47:592-597.
17. Verrips GHW, Vogels AGC, den Ouden AL, et al. Measuring health-related quality of life in adolescents: agreement between raters and between methods of administration. Child Care Health Dev. 2000 ;26: 457-469.
18. Sullivan KJ, Knowlton BJ, Dobkin BH. Step training with body weight support: effect of treadmill speed and practice paradigms on poststroke locomotor recovery. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002;83:683-691.
19. Dobkin BH, Apple D, Barbeau H, et al. Methods for a randomized trial of weight-supported treadmill training versus conventional training for walking during inpatient rehabilitation after incomplete spinal cord injury. Neurorehahil Neural Repair. 2003;17:153-167.
20. Dodd KJ, Foley S. Partial body supported treadmill training can improve walking in children with cerebral palsy: a clinical controlled trial. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2007;46:101-105.
21. Phillips JP, Sullivan KJ, Burtner PA, et al. Ankle dorsiflexion fMRI in children with cerebral palsy undergoing intensive body-weight supported treadmill training: a pilot study. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2007; 49:39-44.
22. Provost B, Dieruf K, Burtner PA, et al. Endurance and gait in children with cerebral palsy after intensive body weight-supported treadmill training. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2007;19:2-10.
23. Palisano R, Rosenbaum P, Walter S, et al. Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function of children with cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol. 1997;39:214-223.
24. Jahnsen R, Villien L, Egeland T, et al. Locomotion skills in adults with cerebral palsy. Clin Rehabil 2004;8:309-316.
25. Varni JW, Limbers CA, Burwinkle TM. How young can children reliably and validly self-report their health-related quality of life? An analysis of 8,591 children across age subgroups using the PedsQL4.0 Generic Core Scales. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2007; 5:1.
26. Varni JW, Limbers CA, Burwinkle TM. Parent proxy-report of their children's health-related quality of life: an analysis of 13,878 parents reliability and validity across age subgroups using the PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2007;5:2.
27. Portney LG, Watkins MP. Foundations of Clinical Research - - Applications to Practice. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall; 2000.
28. Varni JW, Burwinkle TM, Seid M, et al. The PedsQL™ 4.0 as a pediatric population health measure: feasibility, reliability and validity. Amhul Pediatrics. 2003;3:329-341.
29. Meuleners LB, Lee AH. Adolescent quality of life: a school based cohort study in Western Australia. Pediatr Int. 2003;45:706-711.
30. King GA, Cathers T, Polgar JM, et al. Success in life for older adolescents with cerebral palsy. Qu30. al Health Res. 2000;10:734-749.
31. Cremeens J, Eiser C, Blades M. Factors influencing agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-reports on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2006;4:58.