Predict-CP Study
The Purpose
This study measured paediatric brain development and physical capacity, growth, physical activity, communication, cognition and educational outcomes. Information from the study will help many children with cerebral palsy and their families in the future. This project will provide comprehensive assessment of outcomes that will inform the development of timely and effective interventions and predict future outcomes for children with cerebral palsy.
Benefits
Children received comprehensive surveillance of their growth, nutrition and physical activity (including gait analysis, and bone health), communication and language skills, and cognitive/intellectual functioning and estimated academic achievement. All information was reported back to the parents after their visit. The results were also forwarded to the child’s paediatrician and therapists to keep them informed of the child’s progress.
Each child was offered the opportunity to have a brain MRI. This aimed to provide helpful advice about the cause of the cerebral palsy. The formal report of the scan by the radiologist was given to the parents and the results were forwarded to the child’s treating Paediatrician/ Rehabilitation Doctor.
What’s was involved?
Comprehensive assessments were conducted across 2 days for children aged between 8-9 years of age.
Publications
Boyd RN, Davies PS, Ziviani J, et al. PREDICT-CP: study protocol of implementation of comprehensive surveillance to predict outcomes for school-aged children with cerebral palsy. BMJ Open 2017;7:e014950. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014950
Burgess, A., Sakzewski, L., Whittingham, K., Wotherspoon, J., Chatfield, M. D., Ware, R. S., & Boyd, R. N. (2023). Development of social functioning in children with cerebral palsy: A longitudinal study. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 65(5), 674–682. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.15439