The authors hypothesized that the risk of cerebral palsy at 2 years in children born extremely preterm to overweight and obese women is increased relative to the risk among children born to neither overweight nor obese women. In a multicenter prospective cohort study, the authors created multinomial logistic regression models of the risk of diparetic, quadriparetic, and hemiparetic cerebral pal...

objectives: cerebral palsy is the most common type of permanent movement and posture disorder in children leading to activity limitations. children's participation is influenced by their functional ability, skills, interests, and environmental factors. the objective of the study was to describe parent perception of environmental barriers to participation of children with cerebral palsy. me...

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...

OBJECTIVE To assess the importance of disability severity and child functional status as predictors of maternal depressive symptoms and the moderating effects of maternal appraisal, social support, and family income on the relationship between disability factors (severity and functional status) and maternal depressive symptoms. METHOD Mothers of 270 children with cerebral palsy completed surv...

AIM This study is a report of a study describing mothers' experience of learning that their child has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. BACKGROUND Learning a child's diagnosis of disability is a crisis for parents. Their reactions include shock, refusal to accept the diagnosis, anger, fear, and uncertainty about the extent of disability and associated impairment. Knowledge about parental re...

Objectives: Quality of life for disabled children often has been assessed based on functional status or parental perceptions rather than direct reports from the children. The objective of this study was evaluating the quality of life of mothers with disabled children. Methods: There is widespread acceptance of the need for disabled children to be fully integrated into society but there needs...

Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of motor disability in children with worldwide having incidence 2 per 1000 live births. Children CP have disability, decreased ability to walk, poor feeding and limited exposure sunlight. Malnutrition, behavior challenges deficits are causes depression their mothers. Aim: The present study focused estimate severity mothers, looking after ...

OBJECTIVE Racial and ethnic disparities in cerebral palsy have been documented, but the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. We determined whether low birth weight accounts for ethnic disparities in the prevalence of cerebral palsy and whether socioeconomic factors impact cerebral palsy within racial and ethnic groups. METHODS In a retrospective cohort of 6.2 million births in Californi...