Open AccessMotor Skill Development of Children with HIV Infection Measured with the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales
Author(s) -
M. I. Smith,
Jerome Danoff,
Randolph W. Parks
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
pediatric physical therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.621
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1538-005X
pISSN - 0898-5669
DOI - 10.1097/00001577-200214020-00003
Subject(s) - gross motor skill , percentile , motor skill , raw score , population , medicine , normative , percentile rank , cohort , pediatrics , child development , cohort study , physical therapy , psychology , environmental health , psychiatry , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , epistemology
Improved health care for pregnant women who are HIV+has minimized complications during delivery and resulted in a measurable cohort of children entering the health care system who are HIV+ with potential for motor disorders. This study was designed to determine how gross and fine motor skills were affected by HIV infection in children aged five years and younger using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, and to follow a subsample of these children for one and a half years to determine if their relative skill performances changed over time.