Engelsk titel: Subjectivity - objectivity: clinical and video based evaluation of the Heel-to-toe Walking task in
Movement ABC
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Författare:
Jacobsen, Jannicke R
;
Asplund, Jennifer
Email: jannicke@byneset.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 20
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 10073986
Sammanfattning
Intention: The Movement ABC is a frequently used standardized test battery designed to
identify motor difficulties in children. Although much research has been conducted, data
on single task level is desirable. We wanted to investigate one dynamic balance task, Heelto-
toe Walking by comparing the task assessments with video-based assessments.
Design: The study is quantitative, but emphasizes also the test examiners qualitative
assessments.
Material: Our subjects were 31 healthy seven year-old children from two randomly picked
schools. Two physiotherapists were test examiners, and the authors conducted the study
and interpreted the videos.
Method: All children performed the task once, being filmed while the examiners observed
and registered the results. One video was unusable. The clinical assessments were compared
with video-based assessments.
Results: The assessments were identical for 23 children (77 percent), but varied from
zero to one point for four children, and from three to four points for three children. The
correlation was high (Pearsons r = 0.8).
Conclusions: The agreements between the two methods were strong to excellent for 90
percent of the children, but the disagreements were alarmingly large for the remaining 10
percent and may result in misclassifications. More research is needed to investigate the
validity of the Heel-to-toe Walking task.