seability of the robot ZORA in pediatric rehabilitatio
Completed
- Conditions
- CancerChildhood cancer with neutropenia (i.e. low concentration of neutrophils in the blood).
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN16603570
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Gent (UGent) - Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences - Department Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
Children with cancer
1. 3 to 15 years old
2. Hospitalized at the pediatric cancer ward of the Ghent University Hospital
3. In neutropenia (i.e. low concentration of neutrophils in the blood)
Children without cancer
1. 4 to 13 years old
2. In an elementary school in Flanders, Belgium (BS De Vierklaver, Temse)
Exclusion Criteria
1. Insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language
2. Does not understand the instructions
3. Unable to perform the movements
4. No signed informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Motivation, using Again Again table immediately after each exercise session. Three different aspects if motivation were measured:<br>1.1. How many times does the participants want to repeat the exercise<br>1.2. How much fun did they experience<br>1.3. Compared to the other exercises, where do they rank this exercise<br>2. Degree of fun experienced, assessed using the Smileyometer immediately after each exercise session.<br>The Smileyometer is a visual analogue scale based on a 1 to 5 Likert scale using smileys developed for children<br>3. Most fun exercise session, assessed using the Funsorter once all exercise sessions were completed. <br>Each child was asked to rank the conditions (A, B, C, D) from least fun” (at the left of the grid) to most fun” (at the right of the grid) on an empty grid
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method