Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: February | Volume: 7 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 412-416
A Study to Evaluate the Correlation between Pinch Grip and Handwriting among School Going Children in Rural Areas
Vaibhav Kadaskar1, Tejas Borkar2
1Intern, 2Asst. Professor,
Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam College of Physiotherapy, PIMS-DU, Loni.
Corresponding Author: Vaibhav Kadaskar
ABSTRACT
Background: The handwriting is an important skill for the school going children’s who needs to express fluent legible writing for communication and educational purposes The production of functional handwriting depends on the complex interplay of number of abilities including skillful motor and also precise force regulation. Handwriting is an important childhood task in the academic environment, self-care activities are an important childhood task in the home environment. Limited research has investigated the relationship between pinch and grip strength and functional performance. The purpose of study is to evaluate the correlation between palmar pinch grip strength and handwriting among 9 to10 year school going children.
Materials and Methods: A descriptive study was conducted in 2019, among the school going children. The target population consisted of school going children’s out of which 100 participants were selected by simple random sampling. All the participants were assessed by using pinch gauge for palmar pinch grip strength and the assessment of handwriting was done by Handwriting Legibility Scale (HLS).
Result: Using student ‘t’ test in which the t value=3.91, the correlation between palmar pinch strength and handwriting legibility scale score shows significant results i.e., p value<0.001.
Conclusion: This study concludes that there is significant correlation between pinch grip strength and handwriting among school going children.
Keywords: Palmar pinch grip, handwriting, Handwriting Legibility Scale (HLS).
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