Covid-19 Pandemic and Cerebral Palsy

Evaluation The Effect of The Covid-19 Pandemic on Children With CerebralPalsy and The Caregivers' Quality of Life

Investigator aimed to analyzed the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the physical-psychosocial and cognitive state of the children, to benefit form the health, education services and the caregiver's quality of life with telemedicine.

Telemedicine is an application that provides remote healthcare services. Telemedicine method has been reported to be useful in chronic conditions such as cerebral palsy (CP). Patients with CP need regular follow-up, regular physiotherapy, orthosis use, using of antispasmodic drugs, repeated botulinum toxin applications or intrathecal baclofen to reduce spasticity and increase functionality. During the Covid-19 pandemic period, these patients could not come to their controls due to reasons such as difficulty in reaching the doctor, fear of infection transmission, could not continue physiotherapy, repeated botulinum toxin applications could not be performed and necessary operations could not be performed. In this cross sectional study, investigator aimed to analyzed the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the physical-psychosocial and cognitive state of the children, to benefit form the health, education services and the caregiver's quality of life with telemedicine.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients' ages between 3-18 years
• Caregiver of Patients diagnosed as Cerebral palsy
• Patients with routine follow-ups in our clinic
• Caregivers can be reach by phone

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients' ages under 3 and over 18 years

  --Caregivers cannot be reach by phone

• Caregivers without quality of life results for the pre-pandemic period