Motor imagery training in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder

Recruiting

Conditions: Motor ImageryTrainingDevelopmental Coordination DisorderClumsy childrenMotorische inbeeldingTrainingDevelopmental Coordination DisorderDyspraxie

Registration Number: NL-OMON19925

Lead Sponsor: Behavioural Science InstituteRadboud UniversityNijmegenthe Netherlands

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 58

Inclusion Criteria

The inclusion criteria for children with DCD are (according tot the DSM-V criteria for DCD):

- motor ability substantially below expected given the chronological age of the child (criterion A) - the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (mABC - second edition) will be used to assess the motor abilities of the children. Children can only be included in the DCD group if they have a mABC at or below 16th percentile.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria (according to DSM-V criteria for DCD):

- Any medical condition that could cause the motor impairment (checked by a questionnaire filled in by the parents of the children).

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary outcome measures are the difference in motor abilities (mABC), motor imagery, motor planning and online control abilities before and after the treatment period. Motor abilities will be tested with the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (mABC - second edition). An improvement of 5 to 10 percentile scores on the mABC is considered as a clinical relevant improvement. Motor imagery, motor planning and online control will be tested by means of three experimental tasks. In these tasks reaction time (RT), number of errors/accuracy and the actual planning of a movement ahead of time will be recorded. In addition, by using video recordings and observation schemes, the execution of the trained motor skills will be compared before and after the training.

Secondary Outcome Measures