Relationship between the more-affected upper limb function and daily activity performance in children with cerebral palsy: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Partial correlation coefficients between the ULPRS and the PEDI-CAT

	PEDI-CAT
	Daily activity	Mobility	Social/cognitive	Responsibility
ULPRS
Active elbow extension
Correlation	0.44^a	0.32	0.24	0.36
P-value	0.001^**	0.015^*	0.071	0.006^**
Active supination in extension
Correlation	0.43^a	0.33	0.24	0.30
P-value	0.001^**	0.012^*	0.070	0.024^*
Active supination in flexion
Correlation	0.41^a	0.40^a	0.23	0.35
P-value	0.002^**	0.002^**	0.091	0.009^**
Active wrist dorsiflexion
Correlation	0.27	0.13	0.23	0.32
P-value	0.045^*	0.336	0.092	0.015^*
Wrist deviation
Correlation	0.36	0.23	0.31	0.38
P-value	0.006^**	0.088	0.019^*	0.004^**
Finger opening
Correlation	0.06	−0.03	0.08	0.15
P-value	0.677	0.807	0.562	0.260
Thumb in palm
Correlation	0.22	−0.04	0.06	0.13
P-value	0.107	0.796	0.669	0.344
Associated increase in muscle tone
Correlation	0.38	0.29	0.05	0.21
P-value	0.004^**	0.026^*	0.713	0.117
Two-handed function
Correlation	0.49^a	0.38	0.25	0.35
P-value	< 0.001^**	0.003^**	0.059	0.008^**
Total score
Correlation	0.50^a	0.31	0.28	0.42^a
P-value	< 0.001^**	0.021^*	0.037^*	0.001^**

ULPRS, Upper Limb Physician’s Rating Scale; PEDI-CAT, Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory-Computer Adaptive Test
Partial correlation coefficients are adjusted by age and GMFCS levels and are Spearman’s r values. Significant P-values are highlighted in bold font
^* Two-tailed significance, P < 0.05, ^** Two-tailed significance, P < 0.01
^aCorrelation coefficient value 0.4–0.6; moderate correlation

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