Types of Upper Limb and Hand in Patients With Cerebral Palsy

Validation of a Classification of Types of Upper Limb and Hand in Patients With Cerebral Palsy

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02834195

Acronym

CLASS-MS

Enrollment

111

Registered

2016-07-15

Start date

2013-06-30

Completion date

2014-06-30

Last updated

2016-07-19

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Conditions

Cerebral Palsy

Keywords

Cerebral palsy, reliability, upper limb and hand patterns, classification

Brief summary

Cerebral palsy (CP) has been defined as a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture causing activity limitation(s) that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. Investigators previously developed two classification systems, one for the upper limb and one for the hand, based on 100 films of patients with cerebral palsy. Separate classifications were developed following an initial study in which investigators found no correlations between upper limb and hand patterns, meaning that specific upper limb patterns are not always associated with specific hand patterns. Thumb patterns were not included in these classifications since robust classifications already exist, moreover thumb patterns are independent from hand patterns. The aim is to evaluate the inter- and intra-rater reliability of two previously developed classifications of upper limb and hand patterns.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

2 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* cerebral palsy

Exclusion criteria

* none

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in hand pattern classification of each examiner between day 1 and month 2	examiner classification at day 1 and at month 2.	Intra-rater reliability of a classification of hand pattern in patients with cerebral palsy.
Change in upper limb pattern classification of each examiner between day 1 and month 2	examiner classification at day 1 and at month 2.	Intra-rater reliability of a classification of upper limb pattern in patients with cerebral palsy.
Change between examiner classification and the expert examiner classification	Expert examiner classification (day 1) and examiner classification (week 4)	Level of agreement will be determined with Fleiss's kappa (k) and its 95% confidence interval Inter-rater reliability of a classification of upper limb pattern in patients with cerebral palsy.

Countries

France

Outcome results