%0 Journal Article %1 Arnould2004 %A Arnould, Carlyne %A Penta, Massimo %A Renders, Anne %A Thonnard, Jean-Louis %D 2004 %J Neurology %K Activities of Daily Living; Arm; Calibration; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Disability Evaluation; Disabled Children; Educational Status; Female; Hand; Humans; Male; Models, Neurological; Motor Skills Disorders; Parents; Psychomotor Performance; Questionnaires; Reproducibility Results; Severity Illness Index %N 6 %P 1045--1052 %T ABILHAND-Kids: a measure of manual ability in children with cerebral palsy. %V 63 %X OBJECTIVE: To develop a clinical tool for measuring manual ability (ABILHAND-Kids) in children with cerebral palsy (CP) using the Rasch measurement model. METHODS: The authors developed a 74-item questionnaire based on existing scales and experts' advice. The questionnaire was submitted to 113 children with CP (59\% boys; mean age, 10 years) without major intellectual deficits (IQ > 60) and to their parents, and resubmitted to both groups after 1 month. The children's and parents' responses were analyzed separately with the WINSTEPS Rasch software to select items presenting an ordered rating scale, sharing the same discrimination, and fitting a unidimensional scale. RESULTS: The final ABILHAND-Kids scale consisted of 21 mostly bimanual items rated by the parents. The parents reported a finer perception of their children's ability than the children themselves, leading to a wider range of measurement, a higher reliability (R = 0.94), and a good reproducibility over time (R = 0.91). The item difficulty hierarchy was consistent between the parents and the experts. The ABILHAND-kids measures are significantly related to school education, type of CP, and gross motor function. CONCLUSIONS: ABILHAND-Kids is a functional scale specifically developed to measure manual ability in children with CP providing guidelines for goal setting in treatment planning. Its range and measurement precision are appropriate for clinical practice.

@article{Arnould2004, abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To develop a clinical tool for measuring manual ability (ABILHAND-Kids) in children with cerebral palsy (CP) using the Rasch measurement model. METHODS: The authors developed a 74-item questionnaire based on existing scales and experts' advice. The questionnaire was submitted to 113 children with CP (59\% boys; mean age, 10 years) without major intellectual deficits (IQ > 60) and to their parents, and resubmitted to both groups after 1 month. The children's and parents' responses were analyzed separately with the WINSTEPS Rasch software to select items presenting an ordered rating scale, sharing the same discrimination, and fitting a unidimensional scale. RESULTS: The final ABILHAND-Kids scale consisted of 21 mostly bimanual items rated by the parents. The parents reported a finer perception of their children's ability than the children themselves, leading to a wider range of measurement, a higher reliability (R = 0.94), and a good reproducibility over time (R = 0.91). The item difficulty hierarchy was consistent between the parents and the experts. The ABILHAND-kids measures are significantly related to school education, type of CP, and gross motor function. CONCLUSIONS: ABILHAND-Kids is a functional scale specifically developed to measure manual ability in children with CP providing guidelines for goal setting in treatment planning. Its range and measurement precision are appropriate for clinical practice.}, added-at = {2014-07-19T17:42:42.000+0200}, author = {Arnould, Carlyne and Penta, Massimo and Renders, Anne and Thonnard, Jean-Louis}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26dfeef7b349bea7938c120bf509fcb6a/ar0berts}, groups = {public}, interhash = {49baa6b43138eea0ef1e341185415a1d}, intrahash = {6dfeef7b349bea7938c120bf509fcb6a}, journal = {Neurology}, keywords = {Activities of Daily Living; Arm; Calibration; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Disability Evaluation; Disabled Children; Educational Status; Female; Hand; Humans; Male; Models, Neurological; Motor Skills Disorders; Parents; Psychomotor Performance; Questionnaires; Reproducibility Results; Severity Illness Index}, month = Sep, number = 6, pages = {1045--1052}, pii = {63/6/1045}, pmid = {15452296}, timestamp = {2014-07-19T17:42:42.000+0200}, title = {ABILHAND-Kids: a measure of manual ability in children with cerebral palsy.}, username = {ar0berts}, volume = 63, year = 2004 }