Exploring needs and requirements for a prototype device measuring physical activity in pediatric physical therapy: A qualitative study.

Aims: To analyze needs and requirements of Pediatric Physical Therapists (PPTs), parents, children and adolescents with and without developmental disabilities in the future use of an activity monitor prototype (AM-p) in everyday clinical practice.

Methods: Qualitative exploratory study with a thematic analysis approach, based on Braun and Clarke's six steps. Codes derived from the analysis and central themes were collated, based on Fleuren et al.

Using a behavior change toolkit in pediatric physical therapy to support physical activity: A feasibility study.

Introduction: Physical activity levels of children with disabilities are low, as these children and their parents face a wide variety of both personal and environmental barriers. Behavior change techniques support pediatric physical therapists to address these barriers together with parents and children. We developed the What Moves You?! intervention Toolkit (WMY Toolkit) filled with behavioral change tools for use in pediatric physical therapy practice.

Fitkids Treadmill Test: Clinical Utility and Factors Associated With Its Use Among Physical Therapists.

Background: Although the Fitkids Treadmill Test (FTT) has been validated and normative values are available for healthy 6- to 18-year-old children and adolescents, these facts do not automatically imply uptake of the test in routine practice of physical therapists.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the utility of the FTT in different diagnostic groups and to explore potential factors affecting the use of the FTT in clinical practice.

Design: Mixed methods with both quantitative and qualitative data were used in this study.

Fitkids Treadmill Test: Age- and Sex-Related Normative Values in Dutch Children and Adolescents.

Background: Recent research has shown that the Fitkids Treadmill Test (FTT) is a valid and reproducible exercise test for the assessment of aerobic exercise capacity in children and adolescents who are healthy.

Objective: The study objective was to provide sex- and age-related normative values for FTT performance in children and adolescents who were healthy, developing typically, and 6 to 18 years of age.

Design: This was a cross-sectional, observational study.

Validity and Reproducibility of a New Treadmill Protocol: The Fitkids Treadmill Test.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the validity and reproducibility of a new treadmill protocol in healthy children and adolescents: the Fitkids Treadmill Test (FTT).

Methods: Sixty-eight healthy children and adolescents (6-18 yr) were randomly divided into a validity group (14 boys and 20 girls; mean ± SD age, 12.9 ± 3.

Effects of the Fitkids exercise therapy program on health-related fitness, walking capacity, and health-related quality of life.

Background: Children with disabilities have an increased risk for reduced fitness and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Fitkids, a nationwide exercise therapy program in the Netherlands, was developed to improve fitness and HRQoL in children with disabilities.

Objective: The study objective was to determine the effects of the Fitkids program on health-related fitness, walking capacity, and HRQoL in children with disabilities or chronic conditions.

Fitkids exercise therapy program in the Netherlands.

Purpose: To describe the demographics, medical diagnoses, and initial aerobic fitness levels of children participating in Fitkids: an exercise therapy program for children with chronic conditions or disabilities in the Netherlands.

Methods: We reviewed data of children who were in the program on September 2010.

Results: In total, 2482 children from 105 Fitkids centers were included.