A home-based positioning program for children with spastic cerebral palsy was feasible — high attendance, high satisfaction, no dropouts — but with only 5 children and no control group, it cannot tell you whether the program actually improves function.
The program was feasible: 96.4% session attendance, 5.35 h mean daily dosage, 9.8/10 parental satisfaction, and no adverse events or dropouts among 5 children.
All 5 participants showed improvements in PEDI, GAS, and GMFM scores, with mean changes surpassing the minimal clinically important difference for each measure (p < 0.05).
The study cannot establish that the positioning program caused the improvements, because all children also received at least two weekly sessions of conventional occupational therapy, and the single-group design has no control.
Single-blind randomized controlled trial. Sixty-four participants were randomized across two intervention arms and assessed at twelve weeks for the primary outcome…
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