Validity, responsiveness, minimal detectable change, and minimal clinically important change of the Pediatric Motor Activity Log in children with cerebral palsy

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 570-577

  Lin, Keh chung ^a,b   Chen, Hui fang ^c   Chen, Chia ling ^d   Wang, Tien ni ^a,b   Wu, Ching yi ^c   Hsieh, Yu wei ^a   Wu, Li ling ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arm activity; Cerebral palsy; Minimal clinically important difference; Minimal detectable change; Rehabilitation; Responsiveness; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSTRAINT INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MOBILIZATION; MOVEMENT THERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC MOTOR ACTIVITY LOG; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CARE; STUDENT T TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 82055172852     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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