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Children’s Hand-use Experience Questionnaire (CHEQ)
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Purpose
Assessment of function, perception & quality of upper limb bimanual tasks. Also useful for treatment planning, goal setting and an outcome measure
Children over 3yrs and adolescents with unilateral impairment, i.e hemiplegic CP, obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP)
Assesment Type
Patient Group
Cerebral Palsy | Neurodisability (Other)
Age Group
Children (3-12 years) | Adolescents (13-17 years)
ICF domain
Activity & Participation
Area of assessment
Gross Motor | Joints and muscles
Key description
Description
Parent questionnaire about bilateral activities
2 age groups 3-8y (mini CHEQ) ,21 activities
6-18 y, 29 activities
Reliability / validity
Awaiting reliability/validity scores
Strengths / weaknesses
Takes quality of movement into account and child’s perception: “feeling bothered”
Cost
Free
Equipment required
Parents would need to complete online and report results to the therapist. Downloadable results
Training required
None
Considerations & references
https://www.cheq.se/home/publication
Time to complete
20-30 minutes
Cost
Free web based tool from http://www.cheq.se
Online scoring
Comments
Available in 15 languages
Arabic, Dutch, English,French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Malaysian, Norwegian, Portuguese,Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
If you spot any errors or wish to suggest any amendments to this summary, please contact paediatricmeasures@apcp.org.uk