Ozioma Agu, Ifunanya Clara Agu, Godstime Eigbiremolen, Ifeyinwa Akamike, Chinyere Okeke, Chinyere Mbachu, Obinna Onwujekwe
Sexual and reproductive health information needs; an inquiry from the lens of in-school adolescents in Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria
BMC public health
despite accumulating data regarding beneficial effects hippotherapy gait balance skills children cerebral palsy cp effects caregivers quality life qol limited presumably due lack reliable valid measurement tools study aims evaluate impact hippotherapy healthrelated qol primary caregivers using japanese version cerebral palsy quality life children cp qol questionnaire quasiexperimental design embedded within existing cohort utilized total 29 children cp range 412 years caregivers participated either weekly hippotherapy recreation usual care program 1 year addition gaitrelated measurements gross motor function measure gmfme children cp qolevidenced determinants caregivers healthrelated qol wellbeing compared intervention addition improvements childrens gmfme scores hippotherapy improved cp qol domains related participation physical health childrens emotional wellbeing parents overall health p 005 linear regression analysis showed positive relationship childrens gmfme scores caregivers health domains participants received hippotherapy r2 0404 p 0011 hippotherapy beneficial effect physical mental wellbeing satisfaction japanese parents caring children cp