Is there a difference between Capacity and Performance in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder and Typical Developing children?

Welman, Y. (Yvet) (2011) Is there a difference between Capacity and Performance in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder and Typical Developing children? thesis, Human Movement Sciences.

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Abstract

Objectives: For the objective investigation of affected Activities of Daily Living (ADL) in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), the DCDDaily Test and Questionnaire were developed. The test measures the construct of capacity (what a child can do in a standardized controlled environment) and the questionnaire measures performance (what a child actually does in in his/her daily environment). The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between the measures of capacity and performance. Subjects: The subjects were 20 children with DCD and 181 Typical Developing (TD) children, both groups aged 5 to 8 years, who were selected from rehabilitation or physiotherapy centers and primary schools, respectively. Methods: The children were assessed with the DCDDaily Test and parents were asked to fill in the DCDDaily Questionnaire. Spearman correlations were calculated between the measures of capacity and performance for the total score of the matching items and for each individual item. Results: For the DCD group, a significant correlation between measures of capacity and performance was found for the total score of the matching items (r = 0.641). Also significant correlations were found for 5 out of 20 matching items in the DCD group (buttering bread, coloring, cutting, Lego and trousers, r = 0.454 - 0.623). The remaining 15 items did not show significant correlations between the measures of capacity and performance. When comparing children with the same level of capacity, large variation in the level of performance was found. Discussion and Conclusion: The results imply that capacity and performance are two different constructs and that the level of performance can only be partly reflected by the level of capacity. Information about both, capacity and performance, should be taken into account when composing an intervention to improve ADL in children with DCD.

Item Type:	Thesis (Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Schoemaker, M.M. and Linde, B.W. van der
Faculty:	Medical Sciences
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2020 11:03
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2020 11:03
URI:	https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2284

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