Impairments in fine motor skills in children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We evaluated fine motor skills; precision, motor integration, manual dexterity, and upper-limb coordination according to sex and risk stratification in children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL).

Methods

We evaluated twenty-nine children in the maintenance phase aged 6 to 12 years with the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-second edition (BOT-2), and sex and age-specific norm values of BOT-2 were used to compare our results.

Results

We found lower scores on the upper-limb coordination subtest, p = 0.003 and on the manual coordination composite, p = 0.008, than normative values. Most boys performed "average" on both the subtests and the composites, but girls showed lower scores with a mean difference of 7.69 (95%CI; 2.24 to 3.14), p = 0.009. Girl

SUBMITTER: Tejeda-Castellanos X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10578039 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature