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Improvement in Preschoolers' Participation as a Result of Occupational Therapy Intervention

Completed
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
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
  • Deafness

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
direct occupational therapy interventiondirect occupational therapy interventiongroup 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
NameTimeMethod
Improvement of child participationup to 12 weeks

Improvement of Participation of daily occupation as measured with Child Participation Questionnaire (CPQ)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Child emotional aspects - Mastery motivationup to 12 weeks

Dimension of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ18)

Child performance skillsup to 12 weeks

Child Performance Skills Questionnaire (PSQ)

Child emotional aspects - Self efficacyup to 12 weeks

Pictorial scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptances for Young Children (PSPCSA)

Parental aspects- Parental self efficacyup to 12 weeks

Parental Efficacy Questionnaire

Child emotional aspects - Anxietyup to 12 weeks

Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS)

Child performance skills - Sensory profileup to 12 weeks

Short Sensory Profile (SSP2)

Child performance skills - Draw a pictureup to 12 weeks

Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (DAP)

Child performance skills -Fine motor precisionup to 12 weeks

Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT2)

Child performance skills - Balanceup to 12 weeks

Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT2)

Child performance skills -Executive functionsup to 12 weeks

Day - Night task

Child performance skills - Visual motor integrationup to 12 weeks

Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI)

Child performance skills -Core strengthup to 12 weeks

Prone Extension Posture

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Clalit Health Services

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Tel Aviv, Israel

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