Improvement in Preschoolers' Participation as a Result of Occupational Therapy Intervention
- Conditions
- Limited Participation in Daily Life Activities
- Interventions
- Other: direct occupational therapy intervention
- Registration Number
- NCT02774135
- Lead Sponsor
- Clalit Health Services
- 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 52
- kindergarten students of regular education
- Hebrew speaking
- Students of special education
- Attending physiotherapy or psychology treatments
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy
- Spina Bifida
- Developmental Intellectual Disabilities
- Blindness
- Deafness
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description direct occupational therapy intervention direct occupational therapy intervention group will be evaluated 4 times: on referral to waiting list for treatment, before and after 9-12 direct individual treatments of 45 minutes, and follow-up after 3 months.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvement of child participation up to 12 weeks Improvement of Participation of daily occupation as measured with Child Participation Questionnaire (CPQ)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Child emotional aspects - Mastery motivation up to 12 weeks Dimension of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ18)
Child performance skills up to 12 weeks Child Performance Skills Questionnaire (PSQ)
Child emotional aspects - Self efficacy up to 12 weeks Pictorial scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptances for Young Children (PSPCSA)
Parental aspects- Parental self efficacy up to 12 weeks Parental Efficacy Questionnaire
Child emotional aspects - Anxiety up to 12 weeks Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS)
Child performance skills - Sensory profile up to 12 weeks Short Sensory Profile (SSP2)
Child performance skills - Draw a picture up to 12 weeks Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (DAP)
Child performance skills -Fine motor precision up to 12 weeks Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT2)
Child performance skills - Balance up to 12 weeks Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT2)
Child performance skills -Executive functions up to 12 weeks Day - Night task
Child performance skills - Visual motor integration up to 12 weeks Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI)
Child performance skills -Core strength up to 12 weeks Prone Extension Posture
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Clalit Health Services
🇮🇱Tel Aviv, Israel