Does Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Affect Selective Visual Attention in Children With Left-sided Infantile Hemiplegia? A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 15
- 主要终点
- The Computerized Stroop Color-Word Test
研究概览
简要总结
Infantile hemiplegia due to brain injury is associated with poor attention. Left-sided infantile hemiplegia affects the learning and acquisition of new skills. This study is aiming to improve the Selective visual attention (SVA) through transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in children with Left-sided infantile hemiplegia .
详细描述
Infantile hemiplegia (IH) refers to brain injuries that occur before or at birth and lead to hemiplegia/ total paralysis of one side of the body, including the face, arm and leg. The IH is quit rare condition and occurs in 1 in 1000 live births. however, the condition is reported to cause functional and cognitive disability. Children with IH suffer from poor attention particularly visual attention, that is essential to be understand the written language. A focused reading is essential in learning and children with IH possess moderate intelligence and attend school.
Transcranial direct current stimulation(tTCS) is a novel intervention that use small amplitude electrical currents to stimulate the essential areas of the brain through surface electrodes placed on the corresponding areas of the brain.
The eligible children were divided into two groups. one group received tDCS with visual attention activities and the second group received sham tDCS with similar activities. The effect will be assessed before and after with Strops-color testing and a academic reading test.
The experiment intends to explore the affect of tTCS on visual attention span among children with Left-sided infantile hemiplegia.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
The care provider were masked and the pre-post testing was performed by different therapist unaware of the assignment of children.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 8 Years 至 15 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Age between 8-15 years
- •Left-sided infantile hemiplegia
- •lesion to non-dominant hemisphere
排除标准
- •History of epilepsy
- •second stroke
- •color blind
- •under medication for psychiatric illness
结局指标
主要结局
The Computerized Stroop Color-Word Test
时间窗: 3 weeks
The Computerized Stroop Color-Word Test consists of two phases.The first phase is the preparation phase, where the children are asked to identify the color of a circle on the monitor (red, blue, green, or yellow) and press the corresponding key on the keyboard using the unaffected side. Scores obtained at this stage were not included in the final results. The second phase is the actual test, which consists of 96 colorful words, divided into 48 correctly matched colorful words and 48 incorrectly matched colorful words. The words that appeared on the computer screen were presented in a randomized sequence. Each word appeared on the computer screen for 2000 ms with an 800-ms interval. The children were asked to identify the color of the words regardless of their meanings.
次要结局
- academic practical test(3 weeks)
研究者
faizan kashoo, PT
Prinicipal investigator
Majmaah University