SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Ms Igoe); Sports Medicine Specialists, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Mr Peralta); Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Ms Jean); Spadina Therapy Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Ms Vo); Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Ms Yep); Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto (Drs Zabjek and Wright); and Bloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Dr Wright).
Correspondence: F. Virginia Wright, PhD, Bloorview Research Institute, 150 Kilgour Rd, Toronto, ON M4G 1R8, Canada ([email protected]).
Mss Igoe, Jean, Vo, Yep and Mr Peralta were all at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto and Bloorview Research Institute as Students at the time of working of this study.
This research was completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the first 5 authors for an MScPT degree at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto.
The authors would like to acknowledge Susan Cohen, BSc, research assistant, Bloorview Research Institute, for her assistance with the recruitment and data management, and Gloria Lee, BSc, for her assistance with formatting the article. The authors also thank the mothers who participated in this study. Finally, we thank Dr George Morgan, developer of the DMQ, for providing us with the DMQ manual (2006 version) and for so promptly and thoroughly responding to our questions and ideas about the DMQ during the course of our study.
The senior author is supported by a Career Development Award (2007–2011), Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program.
