Ready, Set, Go! A Physical Fitness Intervention for Children With Mobility Challenges
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Cerebral Palsy
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
- Enrollment
- 25
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Goal attainment scale
- Status
- Enrolling By Invitation
- Last Updated
- 2 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Barriers to keeping and maintaining fitness as a young person with a disability exist across many domains of access to community locations such as fitness centers, so looking outside of these establishments may be necessary to advance fitness. This study is aimed at piloting a program that would address some of these barriers by hosting a modified after school running program with an underserved population in an accessible way. There is a second option to participate outside of school.
Investigators
Theresa Moulton
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •a medical diagnosis (for example, cerebral palsy) that causes them mobility limitations
Exclusion Criteria
- •concurrent medical condition that would make exercise unsafe,
- •are unable to follow simple commands
- •have behaviors that would potentially compromise safety of fellow runners or caregivers
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Goal attainment scale
Time Frame: at 8 weeks.
a tool designed to standardize the setting and scaling of goals in a way that allows for both improvement and regression as a result of intervention.
30 second walk test
Time Frame: at 8 weeks
Participant will walk as fast as they can for 30 seconds, as a measure of speed.
6 min walk test
Time Frame: at 8 weeks
Participant will walk as far as they can in 6 minutes, as a measure of endurance
Resting heart rate
Time Frame: at 8 weeks
Participant heart rate after 5 minutes of quiet sitting
Secondary Outcomes
- Surveys(at 8 weeks)
- Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity (SCALE)(at 8 weeks)