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			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJAR</journal-id>
			<journal-title>Indian Journal of Applied Research</journal-title>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">2249-555X</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>Indian Society for Health and Advanced Research</publisher-name>
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			<article-id pub-id-type="other">ijar-9-9-18704</article-id>
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					<subject>Original Research Paper</subject>
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				<article-title>A STUDY TO FIND OUT RELIABILITY AND CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF FULLERTON ADVANCED BALANCE SCALE FOR ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONAL BALANCE IN SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN: OBSERVATIONAL STUDY</article-title>
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			<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author">
						<name>
							<surname>Saad</surname>
							<given-names>Kamil</given-names>
							<prefix>Dr.</prefix>
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						</contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub">
				<month>September</month>
				<year>2019</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>9</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<fpage>01</fpage>
			<lpage>02</lpage>
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				<title>ABSTRACT</title>
				<p>Context: For the purpose of this study, functional balance in children is defined as the ability 
to maintain the center of mass with respect to the base of support during typical childhood 
activities of daily living, school, and play. 
Aim: To find out reliability and concurrent validity of Fullerton advanced balance scale in 
school going children. 
Settings and Design: The observational study was carried out in Shri U.S.B College of 
physiotherapy, Aburoad. 
Method and Material: After the ethical approval from committee and written consent from 
guardian who were willing to participate in study, 52 schools going children were selected 
based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Both the boys and girls, with age group 5 to 15 years 
were taken for the study. The children were assessed using FAB Scale by two rater for inter 
rater reliability and by same rater at different time (24 hours of duration) for intra rater 
reliability. The patients were also assessed by PBS to find out concurrent validity of FAB Scale. 
Stastical analysis: Data was analysed by using SPSS Version 20. Intra and inter rater reliability 
and concurrent validity of FAB Scale were assessed by Spearmanâs correlation coefficient. 
Results: Spearmanâs correlation coefficient value for Intra rater reliability is 0.782 , Inter rater 
reliability is 0.738 and concurrent validity is 0.751 which show moderately positive correlation 
of Intra rater, Inter rater reliability and concurrent validity of Fullerton Advanced Balance Scale 
with Pediatrics Balance Scale. 
Conclusion: The Fullerton Advanced Balance Scale appears to be reliable and valid test to 
independent school going children affect movement to walk over obstacles, anticipatory 
control, dynamic gait and reactive postural control in various directions. The FAB Scale is an 
easy&ndash;to&ndash;administer, less equipment use and less time consuming clinical test with concurrent 
validity, intra rater reliability for assessment of functional balance in school going children. 
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