Do Motor Synchrony Games Improve Self Regulation?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 24
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Stop and Go Sequence
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this study is to determine if progressively more challenging playground games (motor synchrony games) improve executive function in preschool-aged children.
详细描述
Self-regulation (SR) skills in early childhood predict later academic achievement and protect against developing internalizing and externalizing problems such as depressive symptoms or aggressive behavior (McClelland et al., 2019; Robson et al., 2020). One way to target SR skills is to use a program that involves motor synchrony games (e.g., musical freeze) (Gibb et al., 2021; McClelland et al., 2019; Zelazo et al., 2018). This study seeks to implement a similar motor synchrony games protocol in mixed ability groups to target SR. The investigators plan to use a multiple baseline design, a type of single case experimental design, to characterize the growth for individual participants.
The specific aims are as follows:
Aim 1: To determine if targeted motor synchrony games can achieve an increase in SR.
Aim 2: To examine how individual participants, including those with and without disabilities, respond to the protocol.
(Protocol modified in October:) Aim 3: Determine if hurricane Helene impacted the self-regulation of participants
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Sequential
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Investigator and research assistant will not be blind. A second blinded research assistant will complete reliability.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 2 Years 至 5 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Enrolled in the preschool classroom
- •Express at least one word
- •Runs independently
排除标准
- •Known motor disorder
- •Parents report the child cannot hear spoken language
- •Parents report the child cannot see person gesturing 10 feet away
结局指标
主要结局
Stop and Go Sequence
时间窗: Twice weekly for approximately 12 weeks
Participants are asked to "stop" and then "go" in progressively more challenging ways. The purpose is to measure self-regulation (specifically the inhibition executive function ability)
NIH Toolbox
时间窗: Implemented 5 times - initial evaluation, before beginning intervention (~6, 9, or 12 sessions), post-hurricane Helene, approximately 12 weeks after initial evaluation, approximately 2 month follow-up)
Card Sort \& Picture Vocabulary. The purpose is to measure behavioral self-regulation / executive function (Card Sort) and also language (Picture Vocabulary)
Head, Toes, Knees, Shoulders - Revised
时间窗: Implemented 5 times - initial evaluation, before beginning intervention (~6, 9, or 12 sessions), post-hurricane Helene, approximately 12 weeks after initial evaluation, approximately 2 month follow-up)
HTKS-R (Gonzales, 2021). The purpose is to measure behavioral self-regulation.
次要结局
- Imitation Score(Twice weekly for approximately 12 weeks)
- Patient reported outcome measures(Twice weekly for approximately 12 weeks)
- BRIEF-P(Initial and about 12 weeks after (twice))
- Stop latency(The investigators had initially planned four times (initial, after baseline, about 12 weeks after, and the two 2 month follow up), but due to mat availability, the investigators are only going to complete this outcome measure twice)
研究者
George Wolford
Assistant Professor
Appalachian State University