《Assessment on selfcare mobility and social function of children with spina biifda in Turkey》.pdfVIP

NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH June 2014,Volume 9,Issue 12 Assessment on self-care, mobility and social function of children with spina bifida in Turkey 1 2 2 2 2 Hulya Sirzai , Beril Dogu , Selamet Demir , Figen Yilmaz , Banu Kuran 1 Ankara Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sisli Etfal Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey Abstract Corresponding author: The aim of the study was to investigate the functional performance in children with spina bifida, Hulya Sirzai, M.D., Ankara Physical using the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) to look into capacity of twen- Medicine and Rehabilitation Education ty-eight children with spina bifida with lesions at different levels in different dimensions of self- and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, care, mobility and social function. Mean age of the patients was 3.5 ± 2.3 (1–10) years. In the hsirzai@. muscle test carried out, 13 patients (44.8%) had no movements including pelvic elevation in lower extremity muscles and they were at level 5. Sixteen patients (54%) were non-ambulatory doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.135332 according to the Hoofer ambulation classification. Raw and scale scores in the self-care, mobil- / ity and social function domains both in the functional skill scale and in the caregiver scale were found to be lower compared to the data of the normal population. A statistically significant Accepted: 2014-05-24 correlation was observed in the self-care values