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BMC Pediatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Participation in everyday activities and quality of life in pre-teenage children living with cerebral palsy in South West Ireland 1 2,3 4 Vicki Mc Manus* , Paul Corcoran and Ivan J Perry Address: 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC, Cork, Republic of Ireland, 2School of Public Health, UCC, Cork, Republic of Ireland, 3National Suicide Research Foundation, Cork, Republic of Ireland and 4School of Public Health, UCC, Cork, Republic of Ireland Email: Vicki Mc Manus* - v.mcmanus@ucc.ie; Paul Corcoran - paul.nsrf@iol.ie; Ivan J Perry - I.Perry@ucc.ie * Corresponding author Published: 31 October 2008 Received: 22 April 2008 Accepted: 31 October 2008 BMC Pediatrics 2008, 8:50 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-8-50 This article is available from: /1471-2431/8/50 © 2008 Mc Manus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in children but its impact on quality of life is not well understood. This study examined participation in everyday activities among children without CP and children with mild, moderat