Diane Sellers|Anne Mandy|Lindsay Pennington|Matthew Hankins|Christopher Morris
Development and reliability of a system to classify the eating and drinking ability of people with cerebral palsy
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust|University of Brighton|Newcastle University|University of Southampton|University of Exeter
aim study develop valid classification system describe eating drinking ability people cerebral palsy cp test reliabilitythe eating drinking ability classification system edacs developed four stages consultation individuals cp parents health professionals stage 1 drafting informed literature clinical experience stage 2 modification nominal groups stage 3 refinement international delphi survey stage 4 testing agreement reliability classifications made speech language therapists salts salts parentsseven nominal groups involved 56 participants 95 people participated two rounds delphi survey using version edacs produced process salts pairs classified 100 children rate absolute agreement 78 kappa072 intraclass correlation coefficient icc093 95 confidence interval ci 090095 disagreement one level one exception salts parents classified 48 children rate absolute agreement 58 kappa045 icc086 95 ci 076092 parents either agreed salts rated children able one levelthe edacs provides valid reliable system classifying eating drinking performance people cp use clinical research contexts