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  • Impact of intensive upper limb rehabilitation on quality of life: A randomized trial in children with unilateral cerebral palsy

    Author(s)
    Sakzewski, Leanne
    Carlon, Stacey
    Shields, Nora
    Ziviani, Jenny
    Ware, Robert S
    Boyd, Roslyn N
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Ware, Robert
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Aim: The aim of this study was to determine whether constraint-induced movement therapy is more effective than bimanual training in improving the quality of life of children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). Method: Sixty-three children (mean age 10y 2mo [SD 2y 6mo]; 33 males, 30 females) with CP of the spastic motor type (n=59) or with spasticity and dystonia (n=4) were randomly allocated to two groups. The children were assessed as Manual Ability Classification System level I (n=16), II (n=46), or III (n=1). Each group received 6 hours of daily intervention (either constraint-induced movement therapy [CIMT] or bimanual ...
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    Aim: The aim of this study was to determine whether constraint-induced movement therapy is more effective than bimanual training in improving the quality of life of children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). Method: Sixty-three children (mean age 10y 2mo [SD 2y 6mo]; 33 males, 30 females) with CP of the spastic motor type (n=59) or with spasticity and dystonia (n=4) were randomly allocated to two groups. The children were assessed as Manual Ability Classification System level I (n=16), II (n=46), or III (n=1). Each group received 6 hours of daily intervention (either constraint-induced movement therapy [CIMT] or bimanual training [BIM]) for 10 days over a 2-week period (total intervention time 60h). Children aged 9 years and older completed the Cerebral Palsy Quality of Life Questionnaire for Children (CPQOL-Child) and those aged 8 years and older completed the KIDSCREEN-52. All parents completed proxy versions of each measure. Assessments were made at baseline and at 3, 26, and 52 weeks after the end of the intervention. Results: Thirty-five children completed the CPQOL-Child and 41 completed the KIDSCREEN-52. No changes in social or emotional well-being were reported by children in either group. Children and parents from both groups reported a significant improvement in their or their child’s feelings about functioning as well as participation and physical health on the CPQOL-Child. The parents of children receiving CIMT reported positive and sustained changes in their child’s social well-being (CPQOL-Child). The CIMT group showed significant improvements in physical well-being, psychological well-being, and moods and emotions (KIDSCREEN-52) at 3 weeks post intervention, which were maintained over the study period. Interpretation: Intensive goal-directed upper limb training programmes using either CIMT or BIM achieved domain-specific changes in quality of life relating to feelings about functioning and participation and physical health. A condition-specific quality of life compared with a generic measure may be better able to detect changes in quality of life in children with unilateral CP.
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    Journal Title
    Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
    Volume
    54
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04272.x
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172315
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