Upper Limb Reeducation Across Life Span

Completed

• Conditions: Eating Disorders; Cerebral Palsy; Dementia; Upper Extremity Dysfunction; Cognitive Decline
• Interventions: Other: Ready2E.A.T. PROGRAM

• Registration Number: NCT03997591
• Lead Sponsor: Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

Brief Summary

Program Ready2E.A.T. was developed to be tested in the upper limb reeducation on population at risk, such as:

* Children with dysfunction

* Cognitive impaired elderly

* Dementia people

Detailed Description

Program Ready2E.A.T. consists on the training of specific upper limb tasks, including:

* reaching during attention tasks

* reaching during memory tasks

* reaching during sequential motor tasks

* reaching during fine hand movements

This program has been tested as a measure of functional status (cognitive and motor habilities) in population with different risks; It also has been tested as an effective program for reeducation in cognitive affected population.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-05-29
• Study Completion: 2019-05-29
• Status Verified: 2019-06
• Study First Submitted: 2019-06-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-06-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-06-24
• Study First Posted: 2019-06-25
• Last Update Posted: 2019-06-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 15

Inclusion Criteria

• people with 60years old with cognitive decline
• children aging 6-10 years old with cognitive and motor dysfunction
• dysfunction in feeding participation

Exclusion Criteria

• participants that do not understand 2 simnultaneous verbal commands

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Ready2E.A.T. therapy	Ready2E.A.T. PROGRAM	Group doing Ready2E.A.T. program received a mean of 1 hour per week and was assessed at T0 and then after 6 weeks of this program implementation.
Conventional therapy	Ready2E.A.T. PROGRAM	Group doing conventional rehabilitation was assessed at T0 and then after 6 weeks of conventional therapy (occupational therapy, physical therapy, aquatic therapy, musicotherapy, others)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Video analysis of feeding performance	6 weeks	performance of several feeding steps

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Frontal assessment battery	6 weeks	Assessment of Executive Functions

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria; 🇵🇹 Leiria, Portugal