Jackie Parkes

..This article is a report of recruitment bias in a sample of 5-25-year-old patients with severe cerebral palsy...

..The objective of this report is to assess data quality, in particular heterogeneity between regions, family and item non-response and potential for bias...

..The aim of this study was to describe stress in the parents of children with cerebral palsy and investigate associations with very high stress...

..to report the prevalence, clinical associations, and trends over time of oromotor dysfunction and communication impairments in children with cerebral palsy (CP)...

..Professionals have a role to play both at the level of addressing individual child and family needs as well as influencing legislation and policy to ensure improved access to services and local communities...

..The health of children with cerebral palsy and stress in their parents...

..To describe the prevalence and determinants of psychological problems in European children with hemiplegia...

..To describe psychological symptoms in 8-12-year-old children with cerebral palsy; to investigate predictors of these symptoms and their impact on the child and family...

..The purpose of this analysis was to assess recruitment bias in a population-based study of locomotor ability in children with cerebral palsy...

..We have demonstrated the methods necessary to ensure valid, standard and detailed information on CP for the purposes of surveillance, service planning and research...

..To investigate factors that influence the frequency of physiotherapy currently used by a population of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy (CP)...

..To describe the use of physiotherapy services and alternative therapies by a population of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy (CP)...

..To evaluate the psychometric performance of the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) in children with cerebral palsy (CP)...

..The aim of this study was to use a prospective longitudinal study to describe age-related trends in energy efficiency during gait, activity, and participation in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP)...

..74) also demonstrates the potential for extrapolation of GMFCS rating from an existing CP registry, providing the latter has sufficient data on locomotor ability...

..The steeper gradients in some regions for normal birthweight cases and cases with severe intellectual impairment require further investigation...

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..The energy efficiency of walking is not reflective of participation restriction or health status. Thus, therapies leading to improved energy efficiency may not necessarily lead to improved participation or general health...

..In addition, they may not perceive themselves as the primary caregiver to their sick infant, but rather providing a supporting role...

..To review the psychometric performance of the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) in samples of children with cerebral palsy (CP)...

..Cerebral palsy (CP) is a chronic condition about which little is known in relation to the long term stability of and factors influencing health...

..Its cost-effectiveness and user friendliness make it a potentially useful tool in the clinical setting. Further study needs to address its reliability and ability to detect change over time...

..Cross-sectional qualitative study...

..Little is known about the quality of life (QoL) of disabled children. We describe self-reported QoL of children with cerebral palsy, factors that influence it, and how it compares with QoL of the general population...

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..To determine the prevalence, nature, and degree of accommodative dysfunction among children with different types and severities of cerebral palsy (CP) in Northern Ireland...

..We examined whether child characteristics, severity of impairment, socioeconomic factors, and parental stress were associated with parent proxy reports being respectively higher or lower than child self-reports of quality of life...

..The UKCP database is an important national resource for the surveillance of CP and the study of its epidemiology in the United Kingdom...

..Occurrence of bilateral spasticity from 1994 to 1997 was associated with greater severity and likelihood of intellectual impairment for normal-birthweight individuals than for low- or very-low-birthweight individuals...