The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Functional Mobility Scale (FMS) for children with cerebral palsy (CP). The FMS quantifies mobility according to the need for assistive devices in different environmental settings. Initially a systematic review was conducted on the psychometric properties and clinical utility of existing evaluative outcome measures that assessed activity limitation in children with CP. Good to excellent reliability was found for all tools. In contrast, the validity and responsiveness of many tools required further investigation. The FMS was the only tool to quantify activity with different assistive devices for a range of environmental settings. A key objective of this thesis was to investigate the reliability, construct, concurrent and discriminative validity, as well as the responsiveness to change of the FMS. (For complete abstract open document)
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| Creators | Harvey, Adrienne Ruth |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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