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.
Description:
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh:
