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Campbell Girolami
Campbell Girolami
Performance
Suzann K Campbell, Thubi HA Kolobe, Elizabeth T
Osten, Maureen Lenke and Gay L Girolami
PHYS THER. 1995; 75:585-596.
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Background and Purpose. The purpose of this study was to assess the con- Suzann K Campbell
struct validity of the Test of Infant Motor Performance (72MP),specijically the Thubi HA Kolobe
test's sensitivity for assessing age-related changes in motor skill and correlation Elizabeth T Osten
with risk for developmental abnormality. Subjects. Subjects were 13 7 term and Maureen Lenke
pretemz itzfants stratified by postconceptional age, medical complications score Gay L Girolami
on the Problem-Oriented Perinatal Risk Assessment System, and ethnicity and
race (non-Latino Caucasian, African-American, and Latino). Methods. Sub-
jects were tested on the TiMP at ages ranging from 32 weekspostconceptional
age to 3.5' monthspast term-equivalent age. Scores (Rasch logit ability mea-
sures) were correlated with postconceptional age. A multiple regression analysis
was used to assess the contributions of age, risk, and etbnicity to the variance
in 7TMP scores. Results. The correlation between postconceptional age and
iTMPpe$brmance measures was .83. Risk and age together eaplained 72% of
the variance in TlMPperformance (R= .85, P< .00001). No dzfferences related
to ethnicity were found. Conclusion and LHscussbn The TlMP has validity
for assessing age-related development of functional motor skills in young in-
fants and is sensitive to risk for poor developmental outcome. [Campbell SK,
Kolobe W A , Osten El: et al. Construct validity of the Test of Infant Motor Per-
formance. Phys Ther. 1995;75:5855%.1
Key Words: Infant motor development; Motor skills; Pediatrics, deuelopment; Tests
and measurements,functional.
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