Construct validity and responsiveness of the functional Tactile Object Recognition Test for children with cerebral palsy
Autor: | Torbjörn Falkmer, Richard Parsons, Catherine Elliott, Belinda McLean, Susan Taylor, Eve Blair, Leeanne M. Carey, Sonya Girdler |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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030506 rehabilitation medicine.medical_specialty Stereognosis Adolescent Audiology Cerebral palsy Upper Extremity Disability Evaluation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Occupational Therapy Sensation Humans Medicine Child Association (psychology) business.industry Cerebral Palsy Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition Reproducibility of Results Construct validity medicine.disease Test (assessment) Cross-Sectional Studies medicine.anatomical_structure Upper limb Female 0305 other medical science business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Australian Occupational Therapy Journal. 65:420-430 |
ISSN: | 0045-0766 |
Popis: | BACKGROUND/AIM The functional Tactile Object Recognition Test (fTORT) is a measure of haptic object recognition capacity recently adapted for use with children with neurological impairment. The current study aimed to investigate preliminary evidence of construct validity and responsiveness of the fTORT and its association with a measure of upper limb activity. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 28 children with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) (mean age 10 years 8 months; SD two years four months; 16 male) and 39 typically developing (TD) children (mean age 11 years; SD two years nine months; 19 male) was utilised to investigate construct validity and association between measures. Sixteen children with CP (mean age 10 years 10 months; SD two years 8 months; 9 male) who were randomly allocated to either a treatment (n = 6) or control group (n = 10) were assessed at four time points to assess test responsiveness. RESULTS There was a very significant difference (P value |
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