objective : the findings demonstrated that parents of children with cerebral palsy experience elevated levels of distress, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress symptom and subjective symptom of stress and low quality of life. effective interventions targeting relapse have the potential to dramatically reduce the point prevalence of this condition. many studies have shown that mindfulness b...

background: mobile health and e-learning may have a significant impact on training patients, physicians, students and caregivers. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of using an educational mobile application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy (cp).   methods: we used a previously developed mobile application. the knowledge of 17 caregivers of children with c...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to assess what caregivers know about special caring practices for cerebral palsied children aged between one and five years and to what extent they apply such knowledge in their daily contacts with such children. materials and methods: to conduct this cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study, a questionnaire was first designed and then validated...

OBJECTIVE To investigate risks of recurrence of cerebral palsy in family members with various degrees of relatedness to elucidate patterns of hereditability. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTING Data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, linked to the Norwegian social insurance scheme to identify cases of cerebral palsy and to databases of Statistics Norway to identify relativ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To determine in children the proportion and characteristics of epilepsy associated with cerebral palsy, learning difficulties and language and communication difficulties in a specific population of two special schools. BASIC PROCEDURES Retrospective review of case notes for 142 children in two special schools (school A and school B) in Newcastle, UK MAIN FINDINGS: School ...

Cerebral palsy is a common neurodevelopmental condition encountered by pediatricians. The condition may present itself in many different clinical spectra. The etiological and risk factors are many and an awareness of the interplay of multiple factors in the causation of CP is crucial. In many cases, the cause of Cerebral palsy may not be apparent. Cerebral palsy is invariably associated with ma...

Video recordings were made of 67 children with cerebral palsy and 64 able bodied children eating soft boiled ('non-mashed') and mashed potato. Those children with cerebral palsy who had no speech, presumed to have poor oral motor function, took significantly longer to eat non-mashed than mashed potato. Children with cerebral palsy, especially those with no speech, were more likely to cough or c...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of cerebral palsy in children aged <10 years. METHODS The study was conducted in the framework of a population-based, single-centre, cross-sectional surveillance at R.S. Pura town, 22 km south-west of Jammu city. RESULTS A total of 11 cases of cerebral palsy were ascertained yielding a crude prevalence rate of 2.27/1000 in the age group of <10 years. Th...

The recurrence of cerebral palsy in the same family is uncommon. We, however, report on two families with two or more affected siblings. In both families, numerous potential risk factors were identified including environmental, obstetric, and possible maternal effects. We hypothesize that multiple risk factors may lead to the increased risk of recurrence of cerebral palsy in families. Intrinsic...

Accepted 28 April 1995 Abstract A six stage model was applied to a geographically defined population of 210 singleton children born at term who had a diagnosis of cerebral palsy at 5 years of age. Thirty five children were identified as those most likely to have cerebral palsy ofintrapartum origin; in 26 ofthese there was evidence of suboptimal care. It is suggested that this simple model shoul...