GMFM (GMFM-66 & GMFM-88) User's Manual, 2nd edition

by Dianne Russell, Peter L Rosenbaum, Marilyn Wright

Overview

The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) has become the best evaluative measure of motor function designed for quantifying change in the gross motor abilities of children with cerebral palsy. The new version of the scoring programme has now been released, and includes two abbreviated methods of estimating GMFM-66 scores using the GMFM-66-Item sets and the GMFM-66-Basal&Ceiling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908316912
Publisher:	MacKeith Press
Publication date:	10/07/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Dianne J Russell is Research and Knowledge Exchange Specialist with CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research. She has been a health services researcher for over 20 years and a key individual in the development, evaluation and dissemination of clinical outcome measures such as the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM). Her current focus is on facilitating the use of research evidence in practice by engaging with research users throughout the research process and by making research results easily accessible in multiple formats to families, service providers, and policy decision-makers.
Peter L Rosenbaum is a Developmental Paediatrician, health services research, teacher, writer and editor. His career has been devoted to childhood disability, and all his roles have involved work with, or about, children with impairments and their families. He has held over 75 research grants and has contributed to almost 300 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, editorials and invited commentaries in his field.
"Physiotherapist, McMaster Children’s Hospital; Assistant Clinical Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada"

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CONTENTS

AUTHORS’ APPOINTMENTS vii

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION viii

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION x

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE FIRST EDITION xi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE SECOND EDITION xiii

DISCLAIMER xiv

1. OVERVIEW OF THE GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION MEASURE (GMFM) 1

2. CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND 4

3. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE GMFM-88 12

with Niina Kolehmainen

4. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE GMFM-66 25

with Niina Kolehmainen

5. GMFM-66: TWO SHORT FORMS OF ADMINISTRATION 46

6. ADMINISTRATION AND SCORING GUIDELINES

FOR THE GMFM-88 AND GMFM-66 61

with Mary Lane

7. INTERPRETATION AND USES OF THE GMFM-88 AND GMFM-66 137

8. APPLICATIONS OF THE GMFM: WHAT HAVE WE

LEARNED AND WHERE CAN WE GO NEXT? 183

REFERENCES 190

GLOSSARY OF TERMS 196

vi

APPENDIX 1. METHODS OF DISPLAYING ITEM DIFFICULTY 201

APPENDIX 2. DISPLAY OF ITEM DIFFICULTIES USING

THURSTONE THRESHOLDS 207

APPENDIX 3. GROSS MOTOR ABILITY ESTIMATOR-2 (GMAE-2)

SCORING PROGRAM TUTORIAL FOR THE GMFM-66 210

APPENDIX 4. CASE SCENARIOS OF TWO CHILDREN WHO MISFIT

THE GMFM-66 ITEM DIFFICULTY MODEL 231

APPENDIX 5. GMFM-66 ITEM SET SCORE SHEET 237

APPENDIX 6. GMFM-66 BASAL&CEILING SCORE SHEET 244

APPENDIX 7. GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION

SYSTEM-EXPANDED&REVISED (GMFCS-E&R) 247

APPENDIX 8. GMFM-88 AND GMFM-66 SCORE SHEET 251

APPENDIX 9. GMFM-66 AND GMFM-88 CROSS-SECTIONAL

AND CHANGE SCORES 257

APPENDIX 10. STANDARD ERROR OF MEASUREMENT 262

APPENDIX 11. CASE SCENARIO OF TREVOR 263

APPENDIX 12. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF THE USE OF THE MOTOR

MEASURES WITH CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

IN PHYSICAL THERAPY PRACTICE 270

Doreen J Bartlett and Laura K Brunton

APPENDIX 13. ONTARIO MOTOR GROWTH CURVES 280

INDEX 287