Dual-task Training in Children With Cerebral Palsy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Diplegia; Cerebral Palsy; Physical Disability; Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy; Participation, Patient; Activity, Motor
• Interventions: Other: dual-task training

• Registration Number: NCT04777773
• Lead Sponsor: Sema BÜĞÜŞAN ORUÇ

Brief Summary

There are studies investigating the dual-task effect in sitting, standing up without sitting and walking in children with spastic CP. Some of these studies investigated motor-motor, some of them motor-cognitive dual-task states, and children with CP were compared to typically developing children. In all these studies, it is clearly seen that children with CP have more dual-task complexities than their typically developing peers. Some of these studies draw attention to dual-task education in children with CP. However, other than a randomized controlled study and a case report in the literature, we did not find any studies investigating the effectiveness of dual-task training in children with CP. When the literature is examined in detail, there is no study that examines the effect of dual-task exercise programs on walking activities and children's participation in daily life in children with CP.

This study has been planned based on this deficiency in the literature. Based on ICF, This study has been planned dual-task training for children with CP.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-06-27
• Primary Completion: 2020-02-27
• Study Completion: 2020-02-27
• Study First Submitted: 2021-02-26
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-03-01
• Study First Posted: 2021-03-02
• Last Update Posted: 2021-03-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

• Being diagnosed with cerebral palsy,
• Having spastic type unilateral and bilateral involvement,
• Being between the ages of 7-18,
• Being GMFCSS Level I and Level II,
• Continuing normal education (not being a mainstreaming student),
• Not having any surgical operation involving the musculoskeletal system in the last 6 months,
• Not having Botulinum Toxin application in the last 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria

• Failing to accomplish the cognitive task (starting from a number between 0-100 and not counting back 1 each)
• Being a behavioral problem that makes it difficult to participate in the study,
• Inability to walk without support

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
control group	dual-task training	classical physical therapy+ classical physical therapy
study group	dual-task training	classical physical therapy+ dual-task training

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
10m backward walking test with dual-task	5 min	10m backward walking test with dual-task (the speed of gait is measured) (dual- task is counting backwards)
balance	15 min	Balance skills of participators are assessed with 'Pediatric Berg Balance' .
10m walking test	5 min	10m walking test (the speed of gait is measured)
10m walking test with dual-task	5 min	10m walking test with dual-task (the speed of gait is measured) (dual- task is counting backwards)
10m backward walking test	5 min	10m backward walking test (the speed of gait is measured)
participation of daily life	15 min	Participation of daily life of children are assessed with PODCI questionnaire.
Visual Gait Assessment	10 min	Participators' positions of joints are assessed with Edinburg Visual Score. Children walked 10m walking pathway. The camera records were frontside, backward, and laterals.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ordu Uni; 🇹🇷 Ordu, Turkey