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EFFECTS OF PLAY IN UPRIGHT POSITION ON MOTOR AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN ORPHANED INFANTS AGE 6-12 MONTHS

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Conditions
The previous study found that infants aged 6 to 12 months in the orphanage displayed less instability of gross motor development during less than the 50th percentiles.
ACTIVE AND STRUCTURED PLAY IN UPRIGHT POSITION&#44
MOTOR AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT&#44
ORPHANED INFANTS
Registration Number
TCTR20190930005
Lead Sponsor
The graduate school of Khon Kaen University
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending (Not yet recruiting)
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
74
Inclusion Criteria

1) Healthy full-term infants (gestation ages = 38-42 weeks) (Restiffe and Gherpelli, 2012; Saccani et al., 2013) ages of 6.5 to 8.5 months
2) Birth weight ≥ 2,500 grams (Restiffe and Gherpelli, 2012; Saccani et al.,
2013)
3) Apgar scores at the 5th minutes were between 8-10 scores (Saccani et al.,
2013)
4) Abandoned infants or orphaned infants who have no opportunity to
receive breast-milk feeding.
5) The infant is able to sit with support using the child seat and maintain the head in midline (Karasik et al., 2015), and stand with support by extending their knee joints and weight-bearing on both feet (Piper and Darrah, 1994).

Exclusion Criteria

Infants diagnosed by doctors at the local hospitals as having 1) major neurological abnormalities such as muscle paralysis, abnormal or jerky movements, seizures (Levine, 1980; Darrah et al., 1998) 2) genetic diseases such as Down’s syndrome or congenital diseases such as congenital heart disease and musculoskeletal disorders or physical deformities (Darrah et al., 1998; Dusing et al., 2018) 3) visual and hearing deficits
(Franchak et al., 2010; Sanchez et al, 2019) with problems affecting motor development.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) at 1, 2 and 3 months after end of the intervention The gross motor score
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Peabody Development Motor Scale-2 and Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Development at 1, 2 and 3 months after end of the intervention Fine motor and language score
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