Reliability and validity of the Korean version of the trunk control measurement scale (TCMS-K) for children with cerebral palsy.
The Korean TCMS is psychometrically solid—use it to quantify trunk control and sitting balance in kids with CP.
01Research in Context
What this study did
Jeon et al. (2014) translated the Trunk Control Measurement Scale into Korean. They tested it with children who have cerebral palsy.
The team checked if two raters gave the same score and if the scores matched a well-known gross-motor test.
What they found
The Korean TCMS showed excellent rater agreement and lined up strongly with the GMFM-B.
In plain words, the tool is trustworthy and measures what it claims to measure.
How this fits with other research
Tseng et al. (2010) did the same kind of job for a Chinese coordination checklist. Both papers prove you can safely translate Western tests for Asian kids.
Landry et al. (1989) and Lin et al. (2015) also adapted scales for Japanese and Chinese children. Together they build a pattern: language does not break good tools.
Whitehouse et al. (2014) looked at trunk motion with fancy cameras in the same year. Their motion data and the TCMS scores both point to trunk control as a key marker in CP.
Why it matters
You now have a solid Korean trunk scale ready for use. If you serve Korean-speaking families, swap it in for global versions. Track sitting balance before and after therapy with numbers you can trust.
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02At a glance
03Original abstract
The Trunk Control Measurement Scale (TCMS) was developed by Lieve Heyrman in 2011 to evaluate the clinical features of impaired trunk control ability in patients with cerebral palsy (CP). This study aimed to demonstrate the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Trunk Control Measurement Scale (TCMS-K) for children with CP. Fifty children with spastic CP (mean age 9.08±3.75) participated in the study. They were classified using the Gross Motor Function Classification System and the Manual Ability Classification System. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) value of the inter-rater reliability for the TCMS-K was .987-.998, and the intra-rater reliability was .947-.996. The Spearman rank correlation coefficient between the TCMS-K and the Gross Motor Function Measure-B dimension was .860. The results of the study support that the TCMS-K has a high reliability and validity, which is similar to the original version. Thus, the TCMS-K is a suitable evaluation tool to assess the qualitative performance of trunk control and sitting balance for children with CP, and we expect that it will be a very useful tool for clinicians and researchers.
Research in developmental disabilities, 2014 · doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2014.01.009