Quality FM publications and related papers

The following are publications on the Quality FM and the Gross Motor Performance Measure.

Quality FM

Wright FV, Rosenbaum P, Fehlings D, Mesterman R, Breuer U, Kim M. The Quality Function Measure: reliability and discriminant validity of a new measure of quality of gross motor movement in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2014 Aug;56(8):770-8. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.12453.   

Other Research Groups' Publications

Chugh D, Hawker SP, Katchburian L et al. Quality of movement changes in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy one year after selective dorsal rhizotomy. Physiotherapy Canada, 2025:77(1):113-121. doi: 10.3138/ptc-2023-0020

Van Tittelboom V, Heyrman L, De Cat J, Algoet P, Peeters N, Alemdaroğlu-Gürbüz I, Plasschaert F, Van Herpe K, Molenaers G, De Bruyn N, Deschepper E, Desloovere K, Calders P, Feys H, Van den Broeck C. Intensive Therapy of the Lower Limbs and the Trunk in Children with Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: Comparing a Qualitative Functional and a Functional Approach. J Clin Med. 2023 Jun 15;12(12):4078. doi: 10.3390/jcm12124078.

Tustin K, Gimeno H, Morton E, Marsden J. Rater reliability and scoring duration of the Quality Function Measure in ambulant children with hyperkinetic movement disorders. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2016 Aug;58(8):822-8. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.13081.

Gross Motor Performance Measure 

Boyce W, Gowland C, Rosenbaum P, Lane M, Plews N, Goldsmith C, Russell D, Wright V, Zdrobov S, Harding D. The Gross Motor Performance Measure: Validity and responsiveness of a measure of quality of movement. Phys Ther. 1995;75:603-617.

Gowland C, Boyce W, Wright V, Russell D, Goldsmith C, Rosenbaum P. Reliability of the Gross Motor Performance Measure. Phys Ther. 1995;75:597-602.

Boyce W, Gowland C, Rosenbaum P, Lane M, Plews N, Goldsmith C, Russell D, Wright V, Zrobov S, Harding D. Gross Motor Performance Measure for children with cerebral palsy: Study design and preliminary findings. Can J Public Health. 1992;88:S34-S40.

Boyce WF, Gowland C, Rosenbaum PL, Lane M, Plews N, Goldsmith CH, Russell DJ, Wright FV, Potter-Zdrobov S. Measuring quality of movement in cerebral palsy: A review of the instruments. Phys Ther. 1991;71:813-819.