Ghent Developmental Balance Test: A New Tool to Evaluate Balance Performance in Toddlers and Preschool Children

Kegel, Alexandra De; Baetens, Tina; Peersman, Wim; Maes, Leen; Dhooge, Ingeborg; Waelvelde, Hilde Van

doi:10.2522/ptj.20110265

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“…Most of the reliability studies selected in this review were focused on balance (n = 12 [55 %] studies) [19,21,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. The tests used to assess balance were many and very heterogeneous, aiming mainly to assess static and dynamic balance.…”

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“…Standing on a beam or with closed eyes makes the test more demanding and difficult, which could result in an increased number of zeros and therefore a poorer discriminant capacity at the lowest end, particularly at the age of 3 years. This test is included in the MABC-2 and the GDBT batteries, among others, and statistics provided for this specific test have shown an acceptable reliability in 1.5-to 5-year-old children (ICC ranging from 0.7 to 0.9) [32,34,36,40].…”

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“…Likewise, the MMT includes quantity and quality scores for a set of static balance tests (14 items) and dynamic balance tests (20 items). After analyzing all the studies selected, the one-leg-stance test seems to be the most commonly used test to assess balance and provide reliable results in preschool children (ICC between 0.73 and 0.99; r = 0.84-0.97) [19,21,26,32,[34][35][36][37][38]40]. The test has mainly four versions: standing on the floor (on a drawn line or without a line) or on a beam, and with open or closed eyes.…”

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“…49 Similarly, four studies examined associations between balance subsets from different batteries (i.e. MABC-2, GDBT, PGMQ, BOT-2 and the Gross Motor Quotient or Stationary subset of the PDMS-2) [30,32,34,37]. With the exception of the study by Hua et al [32], which observed a weak correlation (r = 0.07), all other studies reported moderate correlations (all r [ 0.50) between the mentioned batteries, supporting the construct (convergent) validity of the subsets.…”

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“…While no criterion-related validity studies were identified, four (18 %) construct (convergent) validity studies of motor fitness were identified in our search [30,32,34,37] ( Table 2). Deitz et al [30] reported that the correlation between the running speed/agility subset of the BOT-2 battery and the PDMS-2 Gross Motor Quotient in 4-to 5-year-old children was moderate (r = 0.75); however, there was no information about which test included in this subset was more valid since only statistics for the overall score of the subset were provided.…”

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Systematic Review and Proposal of a Field-Based Physical Fitness-Test Battery in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Battery

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The present systematic review has identified a need for further research on the validity of fitness tests in preschool children, as well as on their relationship with health. Due to this limited information, the PREFIT battery hereby proposed is based on the output of the current systematic review in preschool children, together with existing evidence in older children and adolescents. While we wait for more evidence to be accumulated in preschool children, the PREFIT battery hereby proposed is a useful tool for assessing physical fitness in children aged 3-5 years.

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Components of Standing Postural Control Evaluated in Pediatric Balance Measures: A Scoping Review

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et al. 2017

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Assessing children's balance with valid and comprehensive measures is important for ensuring development of safe mobility and independence with functional tasks. Balance measures validated in pediatric populations to date do not comprehensively assess standing postural control and omit some key components for safe mobility and independence. Existing balance measures, that have been validated in adult populations and address some of the existing gaps in pediatric measures, warrant consideration for validation in children.

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Toward development of clinically translatable diagnostic and prognostic metrics of traumatic brain injury using animal models: A review and a look forward

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Seidi

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Experimental Neurology

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Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of cognitive and behavioral deficits in children in the US each year. There is an increasing interest in both clinical and pre-clinical studies to discover biomarkers to accurately diagnose traumatic brain injury (TBI), predict its outcomes, and monitor its progression especially in the developing brain. In humans, the heterogeneity of TBI in terms of clinical presentation, injury causation, and mechanism has contributed to the many challenges associated with finding unifying diagnosis, treatment, and management practices. In addition, findings from adult human research may have little application to pediatric TBI, as age and maturation levels affect the injury biomechanics and neurophysiological consequences of injury. Animal models of TBI are vital to address the variability and heterogeneity of TBI seen in human by isolating the causation and mechanism of injury in reproducible manner. However, a gap between the pre-clinical findings and clinical applications remains in TBI research today. To take a step toward bridging this gap, we reviewed several potential TBI tools such as biofluid biomarkers, electroencephalography (EEG), actigraphy, eye responses, and balance that have been explored in both clinical and pre-clinical studies and have shown potential diagnostic, prognostic, or monitoring utility for TBI. Each of these tools measures specific deficits following TBI, is easily accessible, non/minimally invasive, and is potentially highly translatable between animals and human outcomes because they involve effort-independent and non-verbal tasks. Especially conspicuous is the fact that these biomarkers and techniques can be tailored for infants and toddlers. However, translation of preclinical outcomes to clinical applications of these tools necessitates addressing several challenges. Among the challenges are the heterogeneity of clinical TBI, age dependency of some of the biomarkers, different brain structure, life span, and possible variation between temporal profiles of biomarkers in human and animals. Conducting parallel clinical and pre-clinical research, in addition to the integration of findings across species from several pre-clinical models to generate a spectrum of TBI mechanisms and severities is a path toward overcoming some of these challenges. This effort is possible through large scale collaborative research and data sharing across multiple centers. In addition, TBI causes dynamic deficits in multiple domains, and thus, a panel of biomarkers combining these measures to consider different deficits is more promising than a single biomarker for TBI. In this review, each of these tools are presented along with the clinical and pre-clinical findings, advantages, challenges and prospects of translating the pre-clinical knowledge into the human clinical setting.

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Ghent Developmental Balance Test: A New Tool to Evaluate Balance Performance in Toddlers and Preschool Children

Abstract: The GDBT is a reliable and valid clinical assessment tool for the evaluation of balance in toddlers and preschool-aged children.

Cited by 12 publications

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Systematic Review and Proposal of a Field-Based Physical Fitness-Test Battery in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Battery

Systematic Review and Proposal of a Field-Based Physical Fitness-Test Battery in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Battery

Components of Standing Postural Control Evaluated in Pediatric Balance Measures: A Scoping Review

Toward development of clinically translatable diagnostic and prognostic metrics of traumatic brain injury using animal models: A review and a look forward

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