Activity of daily living outcome in children with cerebral palsy followed by a two-week in patients pediatric services at CRP

Abstract

Purpose: Cerebral palsy is a disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture that is caused by damage that occurs to the immature, developing brain, most often before birth. To assess the Activity of daily living outcome after taking 14 days inpatients services at CRP indoor pediatric unit. Objectives: The aim of the study is to observe the improvement of Activity of daily livings among Children with Cerebral palsy after taking inpatients pediatric services for 2 weeks. Methodology: The study was a Observational study design. Total 40 samples were selected purposively then randomly assigned to single group for pretest, posttest. The study area was inpatient pediatric Unit, Physiotherapy Department, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar & Mirpur, Dhaka. Data were collected by questionnaires; WeeFIM scale was used for ADL measurement of the patients. Pre-test was performed within 2 days of admission. The same procedure was performed to take posttest at the discharge date. Result: The finding of the study was carried out by using Descriptive analysis & Wilcoxon signed rank test to compare the pretest and posttest single Group observation and analyzed by interpreting the probability level of significance. The results were found to be significant at probability level 0.05. Outcome of Self-care was 6%, Mobility was 3%, Cognitive 7% & Total 5%. In addition, the decreasing level of dependency showed on result. Moreover, the Outcome in relation to age, sex and type of CP also showed in the result. Conclusion: The study concluded as inpatients pediatric services is significantly capable of producing beneficial effects on the improvement of CP patients Activity of daily livings.