PERFORMANCE: Using Performance for Substance Abuse Prevention.
Motor performance is calculated using a simplified ballistic model.
Changes in motor performance were examined using the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency short form.
Motor performance is calculated using a simplified ballistic model with throat erosion considerations.
Motor performance was assessed using an Economex Rotarod apparatus (Columbus Instruments, Columbus, OH).
Motor performance was assessed using an accelerating rotarod device (4 40 rpm Rota-Rod 7650; Ugo Basile, Comerio, Italy).
Motor performance was assessed using an accelerating rotarod (Stoelting, Ugo Basile, Biological Research apparatus, Varese, Italy), at weeks 6, 8, and 10 [ 14].
As such, a power analysis based on the formulas and tables proposed by Cohen [ 20] shows that to evaluate motor performance in children using the results of ANOVAs on gross motor measures reported by Bellows et al. [ 16], a sample size of 90 per group could detect significant differences in motor performance between the two groups with 90% power.
The risk of physical impairment was significantly related to lowered fluid cognition when mobility impairment (HR = 1.96, 95% CI: 1.54, 2.50) or loss of ambulation (HR = 2.56, 95% CI: 1.90, 3.45) was used to indicate physical impairment, though not when motor performance declines were used.
To test for fine-motor performance we used a peg-board set-up that is part of a commercial test-battery (MLS, Dr. G. Schuhfried GmbH, Mödling, Austria).
