A Prospective Cohort Study to Examine the Improvement in Preschoolers' Participation as a Result of Occupational Therapy Intervention
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Limited Participation in Daily Life Activities
- Sponsor
- Clalit Health Services
- Enrollment
- 52
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Improvement of child participation
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This study evaluates the improvement of participation in everyday occupation among preschool children with mild developmental disabilities as a result of Occupational Therapy intervention.
Detailed Description
Preschoolers suffering from mild developmental disabilities are being referred to Occupational Therapy (OT) clinics according to limitation in participating of daily occupations. As well these children often demonstrate behavior or emotional difficulties. The primary treatment goal is promoting participation yet many times the treatment focuses on child's performance skills and not on occupation based activities. Respectively its outcome measures are the child performance skills. This study will document the therapeutic intervention, and evaluate its impact on child participation as well on his performance skills and emotional aspects. Participants will be recruited from waiting list for Occupational Therapy at Clalit Health services, Child Development Institute, and will be evaluate four times. First time on referral to waiting list ( At the present time due to long waiting list, children are waiting about three to four months before starting OT intervention), second time before treatment, third time after three of treatments and last follow-up after three months.
Investigators
Dr. Gary Leonard Robinson
Dr, MD, Pediatrics
Clalit Health Services
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •kindergarten students of regular education
- •Hebrew speaking
Exclusion Criteria
- •Students of special education
- •Attending physiotherapy or psychology treatments
- •Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- •Cerebral Palsy
- •Spina Bifida
- •Developmental Intellectual Disabilities
- •Blindness
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Improvement of child participation
Time Frame: up to 12 weeks
Improvement of Participation of daily occupation as measured with Child Participation Questionnaire (CPQ)
Secondary Outcomes
- Child emotional aspects - Anxiety(up to 12 weeks)
- Child emotional aspects - Mastery motivation(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills(up to 12 weeks)
- Parental aspects- Parental self efficacy(up to 12 weeks)
- Child emotional aspects - Self efficacy(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills - Sensory profile(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills - Draw a picture(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills -Fine motor precision(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills - Balance(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills -Executive functions(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills - Visual motor integration(up to 12 weeks)
- Child performance skills -Core strength(up to 12 weeks)