Adaptation of the seated postural control measure for children/youth with neuromotor disorders during therapeutic horseback riding/hippotherapy: a pilot project for development and reliability
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop an evaluative instrument for pediatric physical and occupational therapists to measure change in seated postural control of children and youth with Neuromotor Disorders in the context of Therapeutic Horseback Riding/Hippotherapy (THR/HPT). A clinical evaluation tool, known as the Seated Postural Control Measure (SPCM) was identified as the most feasible outcome measure that could be adapted for the purpose of measuring posture control during THR/ HPT in children and youth with Neuromotor Disorders. The study contained three phases: Phase 1: preparing a preliminary version of the measure; Phase 2: examining content validity of the measure in a Nominal Group workshop conducted in Brazil, as well as through online consensus surveys with acknowledged experts in THR/HPT in Canada; and Phase 3: reliability testing. The reliability tests demonstrated excellent ICC results. For test-retest reliability 1 item scored .74, and 21 items <. 85. For inter-rater reliability 6 items scored between .81 and .90 and 16 items < .90
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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 | 0.012 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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".