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- Title
Translational Research for Occupational Therapy: Using SPRE in Hippotherapy for Children with Developmental Disabilities.
- Authors
Weissman-Miller, Deborah; Miller, Rosalie J.; Shotwell, Mary P.
- Abstract
Translational research is redefined in this paper using a combination of methods in statistics and data science to enhance the understanding of outcomes and practice in occupational therapy. These new methods are applied, using larger data and smaller single-subject data, to a study in hippotherapy for children with developmental disabilities (DD). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates DD affects nearly 10 million children, aged 2-19, where diagnoses may be comorbid. Hippotherapy is defined here as a treatment strategy in occupational therapy using equine movement to achieve functional outcomes. Semiparametric ratio estimator (SPRE), a single-subject statistical and small data science model, is used to derive a "change point" indicating where the participant adapts to treatment, from which predictions are made. Data analyzed here is from an institutional review board approved pilot study using the Hippotherapy Evaluation and Assessment Tool measure, where outcomes are given separately for each of four measured domains and the total scores of each participant. Analysis with SPRE, using statistical methods to predict a "change point" and data science graphical interpretations of data, shows the translational comparisons between results from larger mean values and the very different results from smaller values for each HEAT domain in terms of relationships and statistical probabilities.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; CLINICAL medicine; CLINICAL medicine research; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; RESEARCH methodology; EVALUATION of medical care; OCCUPATIONAL therapy for children; REGRESSION analysis; RELIABILITY (Personality trait); RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); JUDGMENT sampling; DATA analysis; REPEATED measures design; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
- Publication
Occupational Therapy International, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0966-7903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2017/2305402