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

Completed

• Conditions: Limited Participation in Daily Life Activities

• 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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-05-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-05-12
• Study First Posted: 2016-05-17
• Study Start: 2017-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-10-31
• Status Verified: 2021-04
• Study Completion: 2021-04-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-04-20
• Last Update Posted: 2021-04-21

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

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