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Reliability of a shuttle run test for children with cerebral palsy who are classified at Gross Motor Function Classification System level III
Author(s) -
VERSCHUREN OLAF,
BOSMA LIESBETH,
TAKKEN TIM
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03893.x
Subject(s) - cerebral palsy , gross motor function classification system , gross motor skill , reliability (semiconductor) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , test (biology) , motor function , medicine , psychology , physical therapy , audiology , motor skill , neuroscience , biology , physics , paleontology , power (physics) , quantum mechanics
For children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) classified as Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level III there is no running‐based field test available to assess their cardiorespiratory fitness. The current study investigated whether a shuttle run test can be reliably (test–retest) performed in a group of children with spastic diplegia (eight male, five female) classified as GMFCS level III. Thirteen children (mean age 12y, SD 3y) had to walk/run in squares of 7.5m delimited by cones. The auditory signals from the GMFCS II compact disc (as used in a previous reliability and validation study) were used during the test, resulting in a starting speed of 1.5km/hour with a graded increase in speed of 0.19km/hour per minute (shuttle). Intraclass correlation coefficients (two‐way mixed) for achieved shuttles were 0.98. The standard error of measurement was 0.48 levels and the smallest detectable change was 1.32 shuttles. The results are the first indication that the shuttle run test protocol could be reliably performed in this population.