臺灣九至十歲原住民兒童之動作協調能力分析

Analysis of Motor Coordination Ability in 9- to 10-Year-Old Taiwanese Aboriginal Children

吳思嚴(Sz-Yan Wu) ； 陳薇宇(Wei-Yu Chen) ； 宋岱芬(Tai-Fen Sung) ； 林憲輝(Hsien-Hui Lin) ； 張泰山(Tai-San Chang) ； 吳昇光(Sheng K. Wu)

《身體活動與運動科學學刊》 1卷2期 (2012/12) Pp. 35-49

https://doi.org/10.29817/JPAES.201212.0005

摘要

Background and Purpose: Previous studies had demonstrated better basic motor ability in Taiwanese aboriginal children than non-aboriginal children. However, no published studies have examined their motor coordination ability with a large sample of aboriginal children and analyzed the differences of genders and ages in motor domains. The purpose of this study was to explore the motor coordination ability of Taiwanese 9- to 10-year-old aboriginal children and investigate the prevalence rate in aboriginal children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Methods: A total of 179 participants including 115 boys and 64 girls were assessed by using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children test (MABC) and Taiwan Movement Assessment test (TMA). After transforming the standard score to z-score by comparing with the local Taiwanese norms, one-sample t-test was used to compare the difference between Taiwanese aboriginal and non-aboriginal children. We used the criteria of the MABC test (total standard impairment score above 13.5) to define children with DCD in this study. Results: In MABC and TMA motor coordination tests, the z-scores of ball skills (-0.23±0.73; 0.33±1.00) and balance ability (-0.63±0.81; 0.51±0.66) in aboriginal children were better than the local norms, but the z-score of fine motor (0.11±0.99; -0.46±0.94) in aboriginal children was worsen (p＜.001). In the results of MABC test, aboriginal girls had better performance in balance ability than boys, but there was no gender difference in the TMA test. Additionally, the prevalence of DCD of 9- to 10-year-old aboriginal children was 14.5%, and the rates were similar in different genders (boys: 14.8%; girls: 14.1%). Conclusion: Based on the findings, the motor coordination ability of Taiwanese aboriginal children, especially in balance ability and ball skills, was better than the non-aboriginal children. However, the motor predominance of the aboriginal children in fine motor diminished. The prevalence of aboriginal children with DCD was higher than most foreign studies, but was lower than other Taiwanese investigations for the non-aboriginal children.

關鍵字

原住民 ； 兒童 ； 動作協調 ； 發展協調障礙 ； 臺灣兒童動作評估

並列摘要

Background and Purpose: Previous studies had demonstrated better basic motor ability in Taiwanese aboriginal children than non-aboriginal children. However, no published studies have examined their motor coordination ability with a large sample of aboriginal children and analyzed the differences of genders and ages in motor domains. The purpose of this study was to explore the motor coordination ability of Taiwanese 9- to 10-year-old aboriginal children and investigate the prevalence rate in aboriginal children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Methods: A total of 179 participants including 115 boys and 64 girls were assessed by using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children test (MABC) and Taiwan Movement Assessment test (TMA). After transforming the standard score to z-score by comparing with the local Taiwanese norms, one-sample t-test was used to compare the difference between Taiwanese aboriginal and non-aboriginal children. We used the criteria of the MABC test (total standard impairment score above 13.5) to define children with DCD in this study. Results: In MABC and TMA motor coordination tests, the z-scores of ball skills (-0.23±0.73; 0.33±1.00) and balance ability (-0.63±0.81; 0.51±0.66) in aboriginal children were better than the local norms, but the z-score of fine motor (0.11±0.99; -0.46±0.94) in aboriginal children was worsen (p＜.001). In the results of MABC test, aboriginal girls had better performance in balance ability than boys, but there was no gender difference in the TMA test. Additionally, the prevalence of DCD of 9- to 10-year-old aboriginal children was 14.5%, and the rates were similar in different genders (boys: 14.8%; girls: 14.1%). Conclusion: Based on the findings, the motor coordination ability of Taiwanese aboriginal children, especially in balance ability and ball skills, was better than the non-aboriginal children. However, the motor predominance of the aboriginal children in fine motor diminished. The prevalence of aboriginal children with DCD was higher than most foreign studies, but was lower than other Taiwanese investigations for the non-aboriginal children.

並列關鍵字

aboriginal ； children ； motor coordination ； Development Coordination Disorder ； Taiwan Movement Assessment