Motor Function Profiling and Its Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life in Childhood Stroke Survivors.
Chai Yin Charlie Fan, Yuliang Wang, Wan Yee Winnie Tso
PMID 41834807WHAT IT FOUND
Childhood stroke survivors were below test norms in manual coordination and strength/agility, which were linked with lower parent-reported quality of life and function.
Motor daily skills were largely preserved; cognitive daily skills were not.
Key findings
01Compared with normative test values, childhood stroke survivors had lower total motor composite, fine manual control, manual coordination, and strength/agility scores, and over 80% were below average in manual coordination.
02In parent-reported quality-of-life measures, strength/agility showed the strongest correlation with total PedsQL scores at r=.87, and manual coordination showed the strongest correlation with psychosocial PedsQL scores at r=.88.
03Daily motor function was mostly good, with 95.8% achieving good motor functioning, while fewer than 40% achieved good cognitive functioning.
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What it does not show
Only 24 children were assessed, and 36 met inclusion criteria, so the sample is small. The study was a single-time-point observational assessment, so it shows links, not cause and effect. Children were compared with test norms, not with a control group drawn from the same population. Children with intellectual disability or IQ below 70 were excluded, so the findings may not apply to many childhood stroke survivors with cognitive impairment. The group had a wide range of ages at stroke and time since stroke. Some attention and caregiver family-impact findings did not remain significant after correction for multiple comparisons. Birth records were missing for some participants because not all were born under the Hospital Authority.
Declared interests
The investigators reported no financial or nonfinancial disclosures.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that training manual coordination or strength/agility will improve quality of life. This was a one-time assessment that found links, not treatment effects.
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