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Accessibility and perceived clinical utility of the GMFM-66: evaluating therapists' judgements of a computer-based
Dianne J Russell1, Karen M Leung, Peter L Rosenbaum
1School of Rehabilitation Science, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, Room 408, Institute for Applied Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 1C7.
Abstract:
The 66-item Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66) requires a computer program for scoring. The primary purpose of this study was to pilot test the scoring software and examine the perceived clinical utility of the GMFM-66 as judged by 48 pediatric physical therapists. Sixty-one percent of therapists were confident in their ability to interpret the information from the computer program following one hour spent reading the tutorial and interpretation guidelines. Ninety-three percent of respondents perceived the overall clinical utility of the GMFM-66 in terms of administration, scoring and interpretation to be the same or more clinically useful than the GMFM-88.