Early Support and Physiotherapy for Children and Their Motor Skills

Completed

• Conditions: Cerebral Palsy; Neonatal; Infant
• Interventions: Other: Focus group; Other: Semi-directive interview

• Registration Number: NCT04523441
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon

Brief Summary

The App-eMot-Quali project proposed here is the first phase in the implementation of a care pathway supported by a digital tool. It consists of a qualitative study allowing individual interviews to be conducted with parents of infants at high risk of cerebral palsy and health professionals in order to identify and precisely describe the needs and difficulties present during the child's rehabilitative care during the first months of life.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-08-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-08-20
• Study First Posted: 2020-08-21
• Study Start: 2020-10-05
• Primary Completion: 2021-01-05
• Study Completion: 2021-01-05
• Status Verified: 2021-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 2021-10-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 37

Inclusion Criteria

1. For the parents:

   Parents of children under 24 months of age at high risk of cerebral palsy who have given their oral consent.

   Children at high risk of cerebral palsy are defined as :

   • Premature children ≤ 31 WG + 6 days or birth weight less than 1000g.
   • Children who have had a stroke or stage 2 or 3 hypoxia-ischemia according to the Sarnat classification.

   The selection of parents may be retrospective with less than 24 months since hospital discharge.

2. For the health professionals:

Physiotherapists, psychomotricians, psychologists and doctors involved in the care of children at high risk of cerebral palsy.

Exclusion Criteria

• A person who is physically or cognitively unable to participate in a one-on-one interview or who does not have a sufficient command of the French language.
• Parents aged <18 years
• Parents in protective custody
• Parents of children with major orthopedic or traumatic disorders unrelated to the high risk of cerebral palsy.
• Parents of a child with a genetic disease.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Professionals	Focus group	health professionals in charge of monitoring children
Parents	Semi-directive interview	man or woman

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Typology and categorization of the needs and difficulties encountered by the parents.	Through study completion an average of 21 months	collected through semi-directive individual interviews with parents

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Chu Dijon Bourgogne; 🇫🇷 Dijon, France