Types of Upper Limb and Hand in Patients With Cerebral Palsy

Completed

• Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

• Registration Number: NCT02834195
• Lead Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-06
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2014-06
• Status Verified: 2016-06
• Study First Submitted: 2016-07-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-07-12
• Study First Posted: 2016-07-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-07-18
• Last Update Posted: 2016-07-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 111

Inclusion Criteria

• cerebral palsy

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Exclusion Criteria

• none

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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 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 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 hand pattern in patients with cerebral palsy.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pôle Information Médicale, Evaluation, Recherche - 162 avenue Lacassagne - Bâtiment A; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France