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Allan Colver
Researcher at Newcastle University
Publications - 129
Citations - 6860
Allan Colver is an academic researcher from Newcastle University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cerebral palsy & Population. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 127 publications receiving 6224 citations. Previous affiliations of Allan Colver include Royal Victoria Infirmary & University of Newcastle.
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Self-reported quality of life of 8–12-year-old children with cerebral palsy: a cross-sectional European study
Heather O Dickinson,Kathryn Parkinson,Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer,Giorgio Schirripa,Ute Thyen,Catherine Arnaud,Eva Beckung,Jérôme Fauconnier,Vicki McManus,Susan Ishøy Michelsen,Jackie Parkes,Allan Colver +11 more
TL;DR: Parents can be reassured that most children aged 8-12 years with cerebral palsy will have similar QoL to other children, and this finding should guide social and educational policy to ensure that disabled children participate fully in society.
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Recommendations from the SCPE collaborative group for defining and classifying cerebral palsy.
TL;DR: P H D ~, ON BEHALF of SCPE COLLABORATIVE GROUP aRHEOP-TTMC-T%EM4S, Pavillon Taillefeq BP217X, 38043 Grenoble, Cedex9, France.
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Participation in life situations of 8-12 year old children with cerebral palsy: cross sectional European study
Jérôme Fauconnier,Heather O Dickinson,Eva Beckung,Marco Marcelli,Vicki McManus,Susan Ishøy Michelsen,Jackie Parkes,Kathryn Parkinson,Ute Thyen,Catherine Arnaud,Allan Colver +10 more
TL;DR: Participation in children with cerebral palsy should be assessed in clinical practice to guide intervention and assess its effect, and some European countries facilitate participation better than others, implying some countries could make better provision.
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Participation of disabled children: how should it be characterised and measured?
TL;DR: Current available measures of children's participation all have some limitations in terms of their applicability across impairment groupings, whether the child can directly respond, and in the ICF components covered.
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Determinants of Child-Parent Agreement in Quality-of-Life Reports: A European Study of Children With Cerebral Palsy
Melanie White-Koning,Melanie White-Koning,Catherine Arnaud,Catherine Arnaud,Heather O Dickinson,Ute Thyen,Eva Beckung,Jérôme Fauconnier,Vicki McManus,Susan Ishøy Michelsen,Jackie Parkes,Kathryn Parkinson,Giorgio Schirripa,Allan Colver +13 more
TL;DR: It is found that high levels of stress in parenting negatively influenced parents’ perception of their child's quality of life, whereas the main factor explaining parents' ratings of children'squality of life higher than the children themselves is self-reported severe child pain.