Prevalence study of cerebral palsy in Hong Kong children.
| Autor: | Yam WK; Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Chuen On Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong. wklyam@hotmail.com, Chan HS, Tsui KW, Yiu BP, Fong SS, Cheng CY, Chan CW |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi [Hong Kong Med J] 2006 Jun; Vol. 12 (3), pp. 180-4. |
| Abstrakt: | Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of cerebral palsy in local children aged 6 to 12 years and to evaluate service utilisation by those children who attend mainstream schools. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting: Mainstream primary schools and special needs schools in Hong Kong. Participants: Headmasters or headmistresses of special needs schools, and various organisations that provide services to children with cerebral palsy in the school year September 2003 to June 2004. Main Outcome Measures: Prevalence of cerebral palsy and support services used by children with cerebral palsy who attend a mainstream school. Results: Of 435 572 children, 578 with cerebral palsy were identified. The overall point prevalence was 1.3 per 1000 children. The age-specific prevalence rate varied from 1.04 to 1.50 per 1000 children. Approximately 38% of children with cerebral palsy attended a mainstream school. Among those studying in special needs schools, 96% attended a school for the physically handicapped or a school for the severely mentally handicapped. Among 219 children with cerebral palsy in mainstream schools, 57 (26%) received educational support, and 134 (61%) received out-patient therapy support. Only 12% received both supporting services. No educational or therapeutic support was received by 26% of children. Conclusions: Compared with overseas data, the low prevalence of cerebral palsy detected in local children in this investigation may be due to the differences in study design or a genuinely low prevalence. Setting up a cerebral palsy registry could help monitor the local prevalence of this childhood disability more accurately, thereby providing more reliable information for planning support services for this subgroup of children. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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