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Table 5 Inter-rater reliability of amount of use and quality of use in the younger age group

From: Observational skills assessment score: reliability in measuring amount and quality of use of the affected hand in unilateral cerebral palsy

 

Amount of use

Quality of use affected hand

 

Use of both hands (%)

Quality of reach (1–3)

Quality of grasp fingers (1–3)

Quality of grasp wrist (1–5)

Quality of hold fingers (1–4)

Quality of hold wrist (1–5)

Quality of release (1–4)

Threading beads

       

ICC

0.932

0.078

0.619

0.624

0.530

0.527

0.684

95% CI

0.796-0.977

−0.194-0.442

0.213-0.846

0.196-0.851

0.097-0.802

0.048-0.806

0.308-0.876

Mean diff.

−3.0

0.66

-.0.12

−0.07

−0.14

−0.09

−0.13

SD difference

5.72

0.77

0.26

0.67

0.34

0.82

0.28

Pop-Onz

       

ICC

0.943

0.173

0.117

0.774

0.823

0.676

0.293

95% CI

0.847-0.980

−0.211-0.575

−0.264-0.527

0.465-0.915

0.0.561-0.934

0.281-0.874

−0.153-0.666

Mean diff.

−2.07

−0.37

−0.20

−0.06

0.02

0.06

−0.19

SD difference

6.10

0.58

0.36

0.54

0.37

0.64

0.43

Stacking blocks

       

ICC

0.950

0.295

0.709

0.826

0.557

0.740

0.228

95% CI

0.864-0.982

−0.109-0.656

0.341-0.888

0.577-0.935

0.122-0.817

0.404-0.901

−0.128-0.596

Mean diff.

−0.86

0.31

0.03

−0.11

0.17

0.13

−0.53

SD difference

5.76

0.37

0.28

0.53

0.58

0.77

0.56

  1. ICC = intra class correlation; CI = confidence interval, SD = standard deviation.