The Use of Virtual Reality with Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Randomized Trial
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper reports on a pilot randomized controlled study on the use of virtual reality (VR) for examining rehabilitation outcomes in children with cerebral palsy. The objectives of the study were to see if changes in the quality of upper-extremity movement and in self-perceived self-efficacy and self concept could be found as a result of VR intervention. There were 19 experimental and 12 control subjects. The main outcome tools for the study were the Harter Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC), the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), and the Quality of Upper Extremity Test (QUEST). The results were all non-significant with the exception of the Harter's social acceptance subscale (p = .02). These results need to be interpreted with caution, as there was considerable drop out with the control group and variability in the participants. These results do not suggest that VR is more effective than regular OT or PT intervention for children with cerebral palsy. These findings will be discussed to suggest that VR remains a viable rehabilitation tool and further research needs to be done where strategies for control group retention are devised as well as its use in recreation therapy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".