Curtin University Homepage
  • Library
  • Help
    • Admin

    espace - Curtin’s institutional repository

    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    View Item 
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item

    Reliability and sources of variation of the ABILHAND-Kids questionnaire in children with cerebral palsy

    Access Status
    Fulltext not available
    Authors
    De Jong, Lex
    van Meeteren, A.
    Emmelot, C.
    Land, N.
    Dijkstra, P.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citation
    De Jong, L. and van Meeteren, A. and Emmelot, C. and Land, N. and Dijkstra, P. 2017. Reliability and sources of variation of the ABILHAND-Kids questionnaire in children with cerebral palsy. Disability and Rehabilitation: pp. 1-6.
    Source Title
    Disability and Rehabilitation
    DOI
    10.1080/09638288.2016.1272139
    ISSN
    0963-8288
    School
    School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57808
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Purpose: To determine reliability of the ABILHAND-Kids, explore sources of variation associated with these measurement results, and generate repeatability coefficients. Method: A reliability study with a repeated measures design was performed in an ambulatory rehabilitation care department from a rehabilitation center, and a center for special education. A physician, an occupational therapist, and parents of 27 children with spastic cerebral palsy independently rated the children’s manual capacity when performing 21 standardized tasks of the ABILHAND-Kids from video recordings twice with a three week time interval (27 first-, and 25?second video recordings available). Parents additionally rated their children’s performance based on their own perception of their child's ability to perform manual activities in everyday life, resulting in eight ratings per child. Results: ABILHAND-Kids ratings were systematically different between observers, sessions, and rating method. Participant?×?observer interaction (66%) and residual variance (20%) contributed the most to error variance (9%). Test–retest reliability was 0.92. Repeatability coefficients (between 0.81 and 1.82 logit points) were largest for the parents’ performance-based ratings. Conclusion: ABILHAND-Kids scores can be reliably used as a performance- and capacity-based rating method across different raters. Parents’ performance-based ratings are less reliable than their capacity-based ratings. Resulting repeatability coefficients can be used to interpret ABILHAND-Kids ratings with more confidence.Implications for RehabilitationThe ABILHAND-Kids is a valuable tool to assess a child?s unimanual and bimanual upper limb activities.The reliability of the ABILHANDS-Kids is good across different observers as a performance- and capacity-based rating method.Parents' performance-based ratings are less reliable than their capacity-based ones.This study has generated repeatability coefficients for clinical decision making.

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • A randomised comparison trial to evaluate an in-home parent-directed drug education intervention
      Beatty, Shelley Ellen (2003)
      The long-term regular use of tobacco and hazardous alcohol use are responsible for significant mortality and morbidity as well as social and economic harm in Australia each year. There is necessary the more cost-efficient ...
    • Upper limb activity measures for 5- to 16-year-old children with congenital hemiplegia: A systematic review
      Gilmore, R.; Sakzewski, L.; Boyd, Roslyn (2010)
      Aim: This systematic review aimed to compare the validity, reliability, evaluative validity, and clinical utility of upper limb activity measures for children aged 5 to 16 years with congenital hemiplegia. Method: Electronic ...
    • Upper limb impairments and their impact on activity measures in children with unilateral cerebral palsy
      Klingels, K.; Demeyere, I.; Jaspers, E.; De Cock, P.; Molenaers, G.; Boyd, Roslyn; Feys, H. (2012)
      Background: Insights in upper limb impairments and their relationship with activity measures in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) are important to optimize treatment interventions. Aims: (1) To investigate upper ...
    Advanced search

    Browse

    Communities & CollectionsIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument TypeThis CollectionIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument Type

    My Account

    Admin

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Follow Curtin

    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 

    CRICOS Provider Code: 00301JABN: 99 143 842 569TEQSA: PRV12158

    Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy statement | Accessibility

    Curtin would like to pay respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which the Perth campus is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation; and on our Kalgoorlie campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields.