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KMID : 1123620150130010013
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Journal of Korean Society of Sensory Integration Therapists
2015 Volume.13 No. 1 p.13 ~ p.22
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Validity of Long Form Assessment in Interactive Metronome® as a Measure of Children's Praxis
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Kim Kyeong-Mi
Heo Seo-Yoon
Kim Mi-Su
Lee Soo-Min
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Abstract
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Objective : The aim of this study is to verify validity of Long Form Assessment, which is an Interactive Metronome measure ®(LFA-IM), as a measurement of praxis of children.
Methods : The study was implemented from March 2015 to July 2015. Twenty-five children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and those without ADHD (age of 6~11) were selected from a local university hospital and community in Gyeoung-Nam province and Busan for this study. In order to examine discriminative validity of LFA-IM, Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, second edition (BOT-2) was used to compare the difference of results with LFA-IM for both children with- and without ADHD. For concurrent validity, correlation between LFA-IM and BOT-2 was investigated using spearman correlation coefficients.
Results : For the comparison between children with ADHD and children without ADHD, there were significant differences in the total scores of LFA-IM (p<.05). Regarding the concurrent validity, there was a strong negative correlation between the total scores of LFA-IM and BOT-2 (p<.05). In addition, there was high correlation between LFA-IM and BOT-2 for the area of hand control (rs=-.532), and high negative correlation for the area of fine-motor accuracy (rs=-.447), hand dexterity (rs=-.532), and balance control (rs=-.623) (p<.05).
Conclusion : This study identified validities of LFA-IM as an assessment of praxis of children. The results showed that it is appropriate to evaluate praxis of children with the total score of LFA-IM and, thus, it is believed that LFA-IM has a potential clinical utility. However, there should be more researches with large number of subjects.
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KEYWORD
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Interactive Metronome (IM) , LFA , BOT-2 , praxis assessment , validity
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