Relationship between Quality of Life and Gross Motor Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy (Ages 4-12)

Most of definitions equate quality of life and motor functioning to each other. The aim of this study was to examination the association between gross motor function and QOL domains for children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). In this analytical cross – sectional study، 60 children with diagnosis of cerebral palsy 4-12 years old were selected from different clinics of occupational therapy. Cp-QOL questionnaires completed by parents of participants، and gross motor function of all children evaluated by GMFM. There was significate differences between gross motor function and quality of life domains such as social well-being and acceptance (P=0/017)، feeling about functioning (P=0/003)، participation and physical health (P=0/003)، pain and feeling about disability (P=0/018)، ability to access to health services (P=0/009). There wasn’t statistically significate relation between the emotional well-being (P=0/54) and family health (P=0/796). There aren’t relation between gross motor function and the psychosocial domains of QOL; which means Children with CP have the potential to show high psychosocial QOL scores even if they have poor functioning skills.