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Effects of weekly review, socioeconomic status, and maternal belief on mothers' compliance with their disabled children's home exercise program
Gajdosik CG, Campbell SK
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics 1991;11(2):47-65
clinical trial
4/10 [Eligibility criteria: No; Random allocation: Yes; Concealed allocation: No; Baseline comparability: No; Blind subjects: No; Blind therapists: No; Blind assessors: No; Adequate follow-up: Yes; Intention-to-treat analysis: No; Between-group comparisons: Yes; Point estimates and variability: Yes. Note: Eligibility criteria item does not contribute to total score] *This score has been confirmed*

We examined the effects of a weekly review program on the compliance levels of parents with their physically impaired children's home exercise program. The experimental group (n = 10) received a weekly review of their exercise program while the control group (n = 8) had no review process. Over three weeks, all compliance levels dropped. Based on a multivariate analysis of variance, the weekly review process did not influence the level of compliance. Multiple regression analyses indicated that socioeconomic status (SES), weekly review, and parents' beliefs in their control of their children's health were not significantly predictive of compliance levels, however, SES was predictive of the therapists' estimates of compliance. The results suggest that therapists may have erroneously based their estimates of parent compliance on family social status.
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