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Helena Leino-kilpi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mobility care in nursing homes: development and psychometric evaluation of the Kinaesthetics competence self-evaluation (KCSE) scale
BMC Nursing, 2017Co-Authors: Heidrun Gattinger, Virpi Hantikainen, Sascha Köpke, Stefan Ott, Beate Senn, Helena Leino-kilpiAbstract:BackgroundImpaired mobility is a prevalent condition among care-dependent persons living in nursing homes. Therefore, competence development of nursing staff in mobility care is important. This study aimed to develop and initially test the Kinaesthetics Competence Self-Evaluation (KCSE) scale for assessing nursing staff’s competence in mobility care.MethodsThe KCSE scale was developed based on an analysis of the concept of nurses’ competence in Kinaesthetics. Kinaesthetics is a training concept that provides theory and practice about movement foundations that comprise activities of daily living. The scale contains 28 items and four subscales (attitude, dynamic state, knowledge and skills). Content validity was assessed by determining the content validity index within two expert panels. Internal consistency and construct validity were tested within a cross-sectional study in three nursing homes in the German-speaking region of Switzerland between September and November 2015.ResultsThe content validity index for the entire scale was good (0.93). Based on a sample of nursing staff (n = 180) the internal consistency results were good for the whole scale (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.91) and for the subscales knowledge and skills (α = 0.91, 0.86), acceptable for the subscale attitude (α = 0.63) and weak for the subscale dynamic state (α = 0.54). Most items showed acceptable inter-item and item-total correlations. Based on the exploratory factor analysis, four factors explaining 52% of the variance were extracted.ConclusionThe newly developed KCSE scale is a promising instrument for measuring nursing staff’s attitude, dynamic state, knowledge, and skills in mobility care based on Kinaesthetics. Despite the need for further psychometric evaluation, the KCSE scale can be used in clinical practice to evaluate competence in mobility care based on Kinaesthetics and to identify educational needs for nursing staff.
Jonathan Cole - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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motor output variability and putative deficits in kinaesthetic integration in deafferentation and parkinson s disease
Clinical Neurophysiology, 2016Co-Authors: Jonathan Cole, Howard Poizner, Elizabeth B TorresAbstract:Objective In Parkinson‘s Disease (PD) progressive decline in motor output is well documented. Less understood are any deficits in integration of kinaesthetic feedback from erratic unfolding movements. Method We present evidence from the reaching movements in a deafferented subject and groups of subjects with variable severities of PD analysed using a new statistical method (see Torres, 2013, Front Integr Neurosci, 7, 50). Results Increasing severity in those with PD leads to their statistical signatures of movement becoming closer to those of IW. Conclusions We propose that some with PD may have deficits in kinaesthetic integration in addition to their problems with motor efference. These may result from problems with integration of persistent, noisy motor patterns and the resultant proprioceptive feedback as the disorder progresses. The results are interpreted in the light of the concept of kinaesthetic reafference (von Holst and Mittelstaedt, 1950 in Dodwell Ed.). In this context, motor output variability in PD leads to noisy afference caused in turn by those faulty movements and to possible disordered central integration of feedback and motor output. Key message Motor output and proprioceptive feedback are inextricably linked; primary deficits in one may affect function in the other or, at least, in the whole system‘s integration.
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the effect of chronic deafferentation on mental imagery a case study
PLOS ONE, 2012Co-Authors: Arjan C Ter Horst, Jonathan Cole, Rob Van Lier, Bert SteenbergenAbstract:Visual- and motor imagery rely primarily on perceptual and motor processes, respectively. In healthy controls, the type of imagery used to solve a task depends on personal preference, task instruction, and task properties. But how does the chronic loss of proprioceptive and tactile sensory inputs from the body periphery influence mental imagery? In a unique case study, we investigated the imagery capabilities of the chronically deafferented patient IW when he was performing a mental rotation task. We found that IW's motor imagery processes were impaired and that visual imagery processes were enhanced compared to controls. These results suggest that kinaesthetic afferent signals from the body periphery play a crucial role in enabling and maintaining central sensorimotor representations and hence the ability to incorporate kinaesthetic information into the imagery processes.
Judith I Laszlo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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kinaesthetic sensitivity to passive movements and its relationship to motor development and motor control
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008Co-Authors: Phillip J Bairstow, Judith I LaszloAbstract:A test of kinaesthetic sensitivity to passive movements of the upper limbs was constructed consisting of two tasks: position and movement discrimination, and movement pattern perception and memory. 475 subjects ranging in age from five years to adult were tested and developmental trends were established. The test was found to be a useful tool in measuring the kinaesthetic sensitivity of normal subjects, as well as of intellectually and physically handicapped children. Results for right and left arms did not differ in the test of kinaesthetic perception and memory. Kinaesthetic sensitivity was found to be correlated with everyday motor functions involving fine manual control, as well as with co-ordinated gross body movements.
B E Mckenzie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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information processing deficits associated with developmental coordination disorder a meta analysis of research findings
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1998Co-Authors: Peter H Wilson, B E MckenzieAbstract:A meta-analysis was conducted to identify information processing factors that characterise children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). A total of 50 studies yielded 374 effect sizes based on 983 DCD and 987 control children. A mild generalised performance deficit was indicated, since motor-impaired children were inferior on almost all measures of information processing. There were, however, several areas where their deficiencies were more pronounced. The greatest deficiency was in visual-spatial processing. This was evident regardless of whether or not the tasks involved a motor component. Most other deficiencies were in the small-to-moderate range and included kinaesthetic and cross-modal processing. The findings support the notion that perceptual problems, particularly in the visual modality, are associated with difficulties in motor coordination.
Heidrun Gattinger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mobility care in nursing homes: development and psychometric evaluation of the Kinaesthetics competence self-evaluation (KCSE) scale
BMC Nursing, 2017Co-Authors: Heidrun Gattinger, Virpi Hantikainen, Sascha Köpke, Stefan Ott, Beate Senn, Helena Leino-kilpiAbstract:BackgroundImpaired mobility is a prevalent condition among care-dependent persons living in nursing homes. Therefore, competence development of nursing staff in mobility care is important. This study aimed to develop and initially test the Kinaesthetics Competence Self-Evaluation (KCSE) scale for assessing nursing staff’s competence in mobility care.MethodsThe KCSE scale was developed based on an analysis of the concept of nurses’ competence in Kinaesthetics. Kinaesthetics is a training concept that provides theory and practice about movement foundations that comprise activities of daily living. The scale contains 28 items and four subscales (attitude, dynamic state, knowledge and skills). Content validity was assessed by determining the content validity index within two expert panels. Internal consistency and construct validity were tested within a cross-sectional study in three nursing homes in the German-speaking region of Switzerland between September and November 2015.ResultsThe content validity index for the entire scale was good (0.93). Based on a sample of nursing staff (n = 180) the internal consistency results were good for the whole scale (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.91) and for the subscales knowledge and skills (α = 0.91, 0.86), acceptable for the subscale attitude (α = 0.63) and weak for the subscale dynamic state (α = 0.54). Most items showed acceptable inter-item and item-total correlations. Based on the exploratory factor analysis, four factors explaining 52% of the variance were extracted.ConclusionThe newly developed KCSE scale is a promising instrument for measuring nursing staff’s attitude, dynamic state, knowledge, and skills in mobility care based on Kinaesthetics. Despite the need for further psychometric evaluation, the KCSE scale can be used in clinical practice to evaluate competence in mobility care based on Kinaesthetics and to identify educational needs for nursing staff.
