Evidence summary: alberta infant motor scale (aims)

Evidence Summary for Pediatric Rehabilitation Professionals
Outcome Measures: The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM)
1. Summary
Type: Criterion-referenced
Purpose: Evaluation
Population: Children with cerebral
Age: 5 months to 16 years with motor
skills at or below the level of a typical 5 Time to Complete: 45 – 60 minutes for
Equipment Needed: Mat, bench, toys,
2. Overview
intended to be administered by pediatric 88 consists of five dimensions: (A) lying assessing children’s motor skills.1 It is walking, running, jumping.1 Items tested on all test items and each item receives descriptors for each score. A score of 3 as such (NT) in contrast to a true score Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children 2007 ii. GMFM-66
which will calculate an interval-level total confidence intervals, and allows tracking high level of stability over time (ICC = (hence the importance of differentiating between items “not tested” and those b. Validity
items actually tested, the more accurate i. GMFM-88
3. Standardization Sample
4. Measurement Properties
a. Reliability
i. GMFM-88
the GMFCS scores (r = -0.91),4 as well cadence (r = 0.79) and normalized reliability. Intra-class correlation (ICC) velocity (r = 0.72).5 More specific scores for inter-rater reliability of the gait velocity with dimension D (standing) (r = 0.91) and dimension E (walking, running, jumping) (r = 0.93) of the change as judged by parents (r = 0.54), treating therapist (r = 0.65), and a video- Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children 2007 large change in children recovering from change in typical children under the age children with CP.2 As anticipated, there children 3-5 years of age than in typical results found in the literature regarding made greater gains that older children.3 5. Further Considerations
were not significantly different after 6 0.99),9 test retest reliability (0.76 to had acceptable inter-rater (0.77 to 0.88) reliability and validity of the GMFM-66 in 298 children under the age of 3 years of 66’s strong inter-rater reliability (0.97) to have better reliability, validity, and responsiveness for this population.8 The horseback riding, therapeutic electrical ii. GMFM-66
stimulation, orthoses, strength training, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children 2007 References
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