Christa Einspieler, Arend F Bos, Alicia J Spittle, Natascia Bertoncelli, Marlette Burger, Colleen Peyton, Moreno Toldo, Fabiana Utsch, Dajie Zhang, Peter B Marschik
Background: The general movement optimality score (GMOS) quantifies the details of general movements (GMs). We recently conducted psychometric analyses of the GMOS and developed a revised scoresheet. Consequently, the GMOS-Revised (GMOS-R) instrument necessitated validation using new percentile ranks. This study aimed to provide these percentile ranks for the GMOS-R and to investigate whether sex, preterm birth, or the infant's country of birth and residence affected the GMOS-R distribution. Methods: We applied the GMOS-R to an international sample of 1983 infants (32% female, 44% male, and 24% not disclosed), assessed in the extremely and very preterm period (10%), moderate (12%) and late (22%) preterm periods, at term (25%), and post-term age (31%)...
April 13, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine