Articles

Comparison of the results of children with psychiatric disorders on two tests measuring motor abilities

Authors

  • Afroditi Theofili University of Leuven
  • Johan Simons University of Leuven

Keywords:

motor test, psychiatric disorder, BOTMP, KTK

Abstract

The relationship and the differences with respect to the norms between two popular motor tests in children with psychiatric disorders aged 4, 6 to 14, 11 years were investigated. A group of 85 children with psychiatric disorders completed the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP) and Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder [Body Co-ordination Test for Children] (KTK). The participants were 55 boys and 30 girls with mean age 9.91 years (SD = 3 .05 years). The Pearson product moment coefficient of correlation between the total scores of BOTMP and the total scores of KTK was r = .75. Significant statistical differences were found between the performance of the participants and the norm group in both tests on the 1-% level of significance. No significant differences between boys and girls were found.

Author Biographies

Afroditi Theofili, University of Leuven

Afroditi Theofili, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Johan Simons, University of Leuven

Johan Simons, PhD, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

IJCFW 2002-4

Published

2002-12-01

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 4 (2002)

Section

Articles