Touch Screen Usage Time In Relation To Visual Motor Integration and Quality of Life In Preschoolers

Completed

• Conditions: Child Development
• Interventions: Other: visual motor integration; Other: Quality of life assessment; Other: Cognitive Functioning

• Registration Number: NCT04524923
• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University

Brief Summary

Recent literatures are associating digital technology extensive and addictive use with physical, psychosocial and cognitive inverse consequences. This research focuses more on number of touch screen devices; age started using devices and usage time in relation to cognitive function in preschoolers.

Detailed Description

A hundred typically developing preschool children of both genders with age ranges from three to five years will be included in this study. Visual motor integration, quality of life and cognitive function were assessed by the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ cognitive functioning scale respectively

Sample size To avoid type II error, sample size calculation was based on data from a pilot study on correlation between touch screen usage time and visual motor integration. Using G\*POWER statistica software (version 3.1.9.2; Franz Faul, Universitat Kiel, Germany) \[Correlational study, α=0.05, β=0.2, and medium effect size = 0.3\] revealed that the appropriate sample size for this study was N=84 Therefore, one-hundred children were recruited for possible dropouts during assessment.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-08-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-08-21
• Study First Posted: 2020-08-24
• Study Start: 2020-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-02-10
• Study Completion: 2021-02-10
• Status Verified: 2021-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-06-25
• Last Update Posted: 2021-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 97

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
cohort group	visual motor integration	Ninety-seven typically developing preschool children of both genders with age ranges from three to five years will be included in this study. Visual motor integration, quality of life and cognitive function were assessed by the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ cognitive functioning scale respectively
cohort group	Cognitive Functioning	Ninety-seven typically developing preschool children of both genders with age ranges from three to five years will be included in this study. Visual motor integration, quality of life and cognitive function were assessed by the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ cognitive functioning scale respectively
cohort group	Quality of life assessment	Ninety-seven typically developing preschool children of both genders with age ranges from three to five years will be included in this study. Visual motor integration, quality of life and cognitive function were assessed by the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ cognitive functioning scale respectively

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
cognitive function	1 September 2020 to 31 March 2021	Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Cognitive Functioning Scale will be used to assess cognitive function. It was developed as a brief generic symptom-specific instrument to measure cognitive functioning. The 6-item scale was designed as a brief and easy-to-administer patient self-reported and parent proxy-reported generic symptom specific instrument to measure cognitive functioning across pediatric populations, originally developed in a pediatric cancer population. The PedsQLTM Cognitive Functioning Scale includes format, instructions, Likert scale from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating better cognitive function.
visual motor integration	1 September 2020 to 31 March 2021	The Peabody Developmental Motor Scale will be used to assess visual motor integration. It is a standardized, norm-referenced test used for the assessment of upper limb functions. It is an early childhood motor development program that provides (in one package) both in depth assessment and training of gross and fine motor skills. It can be used by occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologists, and others who are interested in examining the motor abilities of young children. It is composed of six subtests:-Reflexes (8 items), stationary (30 items), locomotion (89 items), object manipulation (24 items), grasping (25 items) and visual motor integration (72 items). The results of the subtests may be used to generate 3 global indexes of motor performance called (composites). These composites are gross motor quotient, fine motor quotient and total motor quotient with higher scores represent better performance
Physical and Psychosocial Health	1 September 2020 to 31 March 2021	The Pediatric quality of life inventory™ generic Arabic parent proxy-report for children from two to five years was used to assess quality of life. It was developed to quantify health- related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents aged 2-18 years. It consists of 23 questions and evaluate how frequently of a trouble the child has had over the past month. Interpretation of the scale reveals the mean performance as total scale score, physical functioning score (eight questions), emotional functioning score (five questions), social functioning score (five questions) and school function scores (five items). the scores are from 0 to 100 with higher results reflecting better performance.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

faculty of physical therapy, Cairo university; 🇪🇬 Giza, Egypt