Development and Application-Smart Football for Movement Evaluation and Training in the Special Education Population

Completed

• Conditions: Intellectual Disability
• Interventions: Device: smart soccer ball

• Registration Number: NCT02486081
• Lead Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Brief Summary

Children with disabilities are frequently ignored by the general population, hence the development of movement evaluation and training devices for use in special education settings are relatively overlooked. Usually the performance of these children is not stable and contains variations. Hence in order to get a complete picture of their sport performance, simply measuring movement time and distance is definitely not representative. With the rising attention from government regarding fitness and social participation of the disabled in recent years, developing a special-designed individual evaluation \& training plan is of great importance. To achieve this goal, a device which is able to record the complete process of movement, and contains algorithm that can pick up the movement characteristics of children with disabilities is needed. The purpose of this study is to design and develop a smart soccer ball system for use in children with intellectual disabilities(ID), and to compare the performance between children with ID and the typically developed.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2015-06-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-06-30
• Study First Posted: 2015-07-01
• Study Start: 2016-04
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-05
• Study Completion: 2019-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-07-31
• Last Update Posted: 2019-08-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

1. Intellectual disabilities (ID) group:

   • children with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.
   • able to walk independently
   • can follow simple commands

2. Typical developed children:

   • age-matched TD children

Exclusion Criteria

1. fracture or receive orthopedic surgery within six months.
2. Participate in regular soccer training.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
typical-developed children (TD)	smart soccer ball	TD children will be measured via a smart soccer ball. Performance will be measured as acceleration, total time for completion, total distance
children with intelligent disabilities	smart soccer ball	children with ID will be measured via a smart soccer ball. Performance will be measured as acceleration, total time for completion, total distance

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
time (in second)	one week
acceleration (in m/sec square)	one week
distance completed (in meters)	one week

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

National TaoYuan Special School; 🇨🇳 TaoYuan, Taiwan

Chang Gung Univ.; 🇨🇳 Taoyuan, Taiwan