Rehabilitació Assistida Amb Cavalls Posttractament oncològic en Nens i Adolescents: Efectes físics i psicològics
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Cancer
- Sponsor
- Escoles Universitaries Gimbernat
- Enrollment
- 30
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Self-Reported Quality Of Life Changes
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Clinical trial on the physical and psychological effects of Horse Assisted Rehabilitation after the treatment of cancer in children 4 to 18 years of age.
Detailed Description
Randomized controlled open labelled trial. Duration: 6 months. Groups: Control Group (standard follow-up) and Intervention Group (one weekly rehabilitation session assisted by horse). Participants: 30 children, 4 to 18 years of age, after 6 months of the discharge of the cancer treatment with nervous system involvement.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Children between 4 and 18 years of age, who had suffered a cancer with affectation of the Central Nervous System
- •With or without motor, functional and / or cognitive deficits or neurological disorders due to their basic problem or be as a consequence of the therapeutic procedures, with any degree of disability
- •More than 6 months after receiving the discharge of oncology (chemotherapy or radiotherapy)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Immunodepression
- •Hypotonia with severe pelvic instability that does not allow seating on the horse safely
- •Weight greater than 80Kg.
- •Phobia to horses
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Self-Reported Quality Of Life Changes
Time Frame: Baseline and 25th week
Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory - Child-Self Report (PedsQL-C) (PedsQL is a model for measuring quality of life in children with acute or chronic pathology; The PedsQL questionnaire is composed of 23 items comprising 4 dimensions; items are reversed scored and linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale; in order to get a total score we must sum all the items scores over the number of items answered on all the Scales; total score 0-100, higher=better).
Secondary Outcomes
- Anxiety Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Depression Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Self-Reported Sociability Function Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Self-Reported Physical Function Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Behavior Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Parents-Reported Physical Function Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Self-Reported Emotional Function Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Parent-Proxys Reported Quality Of Life Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- General Health Status Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Parent-Reported Emotional Function Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Balance Changes(Baseline, 6th, 12th and 25th week)
- Proprioception-Coordination Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Autonomous Neurvous System activation function Changes(Baseline, 6th, 12th and 25th week)
- Parent-Reported Sociability Function Changes(Baseline and 25th week)
- Position Changes(Baseline, 6th, 12th and 25th week)