The Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ’07) is an instrument for screening children between 5 and 15 years of age. Although it is popular, this instrument has not been adapted for use with Turkish children, and there is no valid similar screening tool in Turkey. Thus, this study aimed to provide a cross-cultural adaptation of the DCDQ’07 for Turkish children. We performed the translation process using well-established cross-cultural adaptation guidelines, and we recruited 736 parents (361 males, 375 females) of typically developing children with a mean ( M) age of 9.27 years (standard deviation = 2 years 5 months, range: 5.0–14.9 years). We determined the internal consistency of the questionnaire by item and total score correlations, Cronbach’s α and item-deleted Cronbach’s α. Intraclass correlation coefficients were used to determine test–retest reliability after an interval of 5 days. The Cronbach’s α of the Turkish DCDQ’07 was .890 for the total questionnaire. All the item-deleted Cronbach’s α values were lower than the total value of .890, except the bull in a China shop item (Cronbach’s α values .896). Test–retest reliability ranged from .99 to 1.00. The Turkish DCDQ is a valid and reliable screening tool for assessing the motor performance of children between 5 and 15 years of age.
Objective: Motor development is at the forefront of evaluation of neurodevelopmental functions in the first 6 months of life. Significant spontaneous movement patterns of infants are called general movements. General movements are rough and complex movements involving the entire body. Prechtl qualitative assesment of general movements (GMA) can be performed in the first 20 weeks. It has been reported that GMA can identify motor problems with 98% sensitivity. Our aim is to investigate the specificity and sensitivity of GMA in our series by comparing the results of GMA and neurological evaluation. Materials and Methods: Eighty infants who were less than 20 weeks old were included into the study. All infants were assessed with both neurological evaluation and video recording for the GMA at the Spastic Childrens Foundation of Turkey. As a standard technique; video recording was obtained in the GMA room of comfortably dressed infants when they were not sleepy or restless in the GMA room for 3-5 minutes in the supine position. The assessments were based on the corrected age for the preterm infants. Results: The GMA and neurological evaluation results were found to be incompatible with each other in only 8 of 80 infants. A total of 90 video recordings were made of the 80 infants. Our study revealed that GMA can identify the motor problems with 95.8% sensitivity and 87.5% specificity. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates that GHA may be an independent method that can identify motor problems during infancy. This study has an importance because it is one of the few independent studies that was completed by a differentiated cerebral palsy center, where GMA is applied as a standard method.Amaç: Hayatın ilk 6 ayında nörogelişimsel olarak değerlendirilebilen işlevlerin başında motor gelişim gelir. Bebeklerin belirgin spontan hareket paternine genel hareketler denir. Genel hareketler bütün bedeni içeren kaba ve kompleks hareketlerdir. İlk 20 haftada uygulanabilen ve bebeğin genel hareketlerini değerlendiren Prechtl kalitatif genel hareket analizinin (GHA) %98 sensitivite ile bebekte motor problemleri yakalayabileceği bildirilmiştir. Amacımız GHA için video çekimi uygulanmış olan bebeklerin, GHA değerlendirme sonuçları ile nörolojik değerlendirmelerini karşılaştırarak GHA'nın özgüllük ve duyarlılığını kendi olgu serimizde araştırmaktır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Türkiye Spastik Çocuklar Vakfı'nda 20 haftasını doldurmamış GHA için video çekimi yapılmış ve nörolojik olarak değerlendirilmiş 80 bebek çalışmaya alınmıştır. Standart olarak GHA için rahat giydirilmiş uykulu ve huzursuz olmayan bebekler supin pozisyonda 3-5 dakika süre ile GHA odasında videoya alınmıştır. Değerlendirmelerde preterm bebeklerin düzeltilmiş yaşları esas alınmıştır. Bulgular: GHA ve nörolojik değerlendirmenin sadece 8 bebekte birbiri ile uyumlu olmadığı bulunmuştur. Çalışmamızda 80 bebeğe yapılan toplam 90 çekim ile kendi serimizde GHA'nın motor gelişim problemlerini %95,8 duyarlılık ve %87,5 özgüllükle ortaya koyduğunu göstermektedir. Sonuç: Çalışmamız GHA'nın standa...
Bebekleri yalnızca video kaydıyla gözlemleyen grubun tutarlılığı, bebekleri hem gelişimsel muayene hem de video kaydıyla gözlemleyen gruba oranla anlamlı olarak düşük bulundu. Sonuç: Araştırmada, tüm gözlemciler arası Kappa patolojik tanılarda ve patolojik-normal tanılar birlikte değerlendirildiğinde kabul edilebilir uyum sınırlarının altındaydı. Riskli bebek izleminin GHA değerlendirmesinin yanı sıra diğer motor ölçekler ile de desteklenmesi yararlı olacaktır.
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