Journal article
Participation trajectories: impact of school transitions on children and adolescents with cerebral palsy
C Imms, B Adair
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.13229
Abstract
Aim: To describe participation trajectories, and impact of school transitions on those trajectories, of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Method: This population-based longitudinal study assessed participation in activities outside school of children with CP born in 1994/1995. Eligible children contributed data between two and five occasions over 9 years, and had parents with sufficient English proficiency to complete the measures: the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment, and the Preferences for Activities of Children. Linear mixed models were used to assess the relationships between participation and age and the impact of transition. Results: At study commencement (2006), ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support of families and adolescents who took part in this study: without them, there is no study. We also acknowledge the Victorian Cerebral Palsy Register for their assistance with recruitment, and the contributions of Professor Sheena Reilly, Professor John Carlin, and Professor Karen Dodd in the development and conduct of the early phases of the study. We acknowledge and thank Ms Maria Sicari for her assistance with later phases of data collection and project management. The study received funding from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, the National Health & Medical Research Council, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and a Doctoral Scholarship from La Trobe University. The funding bodies were not involved in the study design, data collection, and analysis or manuscript preparation. The authors have stated that they had no interests which might be perceived as posing a conflict or bias.