Handwriting Intervention, With vs. Without a Rightward Bias, in a Junior High School-A Randomized Controlled Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 16
- 主要终点
- SML excels CON in script letter legibility
研究概览
简要总结
Children who attend School-Based Occupational Therapy (SBOT) show mixed dominance and a liable decreased in the structural and functional differentiation between the two hemispheres. The lack of right-left disparity has been found to link to mirror invariance, poor spatial organization, fragmentary reversals, and handwriting difficulty. This study intends to find out, whether, Sensory Motor Lateralization (SML), "With" a rightward bias, profits handwriting more than the conventional (CON) "Without".
详细描述
10 to 30% of school children suffer handwriting difficulty. Many of them are eventually referred to SBOT for remedial intervention. Among these children, 70% show mixed dominance in their hand and/or leg use, and a likely functional and structural interhemispherical asymmetry reduction. This would make them right-left symmetrical. Learning, thus, may be challenged, because people who are right-left balanced would not have a consistent reference point to process the learning materials regularly in any pre-determined directions. They are, thus, prone to suffer mirror invariance, fragmentary reversal errors, and handwriting difficulty, especially with the fast and accurate construction of asymmetrical letters from memory.
To enhance right-left disparity, dispel mirror invariance, and facilitate the automatized handwriting, SML preferentially belabors one's right eye, ear, hand and leg in therapy, that would greater engage the left hemisphere for its acclaimed vantages over learning. This study investigates, whether SML, wielding such a rightward bias, profits handwriting greater than CON.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
In this study, since the Principal Investigator was the intervener to both study groups, and also the data collector, an effort was made to ensure that both the pre- and posttest were administered in the presence of one other Occupational Therapist, Registered (OTR) and/or a Physical Therapist, who shared the use of the room with Mrs. Teng, test booklets were encrypted, and, that the participants, parents, test graders (one different OTR to each test instrument), and statisticians were kept blind to the group assignment of each participant.
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Any Special or Regular Education students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), OT mandates, and handwriting goals.
- •Has Intelligence Quotient (IQ) equal to or above
- •Ambulatory.
- •Proficient in English, and fluent in naming, identifying, and accessing the sequence of letters in the alphabet.
- •The students who attend Physical Therapy (PT), Adaptive Physical Education (PE), and any other programs are included, if the programs being provided are skill-, theme-, or task-oriented, not involving any muscle strengthening activities.
排除标准
- •All are excluded, if the study candidates have any medical condition(s) that would prohibit them from the full physical participation in school.
研究组 & 干预措施
Sensory Motor Lateralization (SML)
This was a group of 8 junior high school students who received SML in school for handwriting difficulty during the 2012-13 School Year. The participants received left eye-and-ear occlusion, fitness exercises, fine motor speed training, and handwriting practice on their right hand only.
干预措施: SML (Behavioral)
Conventional School-Based OT (CON)
This was a group of 8 junior high school students who received conventional school-based Occupational Therapy service for handwriting difficulty during the 2012-13 School Year. The participants received a like fitness exercises, fine motor speed training, and handwriting practice on their dominant hand instead.
干预措施: CON (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
SML excels CON in script letter legibility
时间窗: Change from Baseline percent accuracy score at 3 months
Assess by the percent accuracy score of script letter legibility derived from the Wold Sentence Copying Test (WSCT). The letter legibility score was calculated by counting the total number of letters the participant wrote minus the writing errors per THS-R criteria, divided by the total number of characters written, and multiplied by 100. The minimum is 0, and the maximum is 100. The higher values represent better treatment outcome.
SML excels CON in manuscript letter legibility
时间窗: Change from Baseline percent accuracy score at 3 months
Assess by the percent accuracy score of manuscript letter legibility derived from the Wold Sentence Copying Test (WSCT). TThe letter legibility score was calculated by counting the total number of letters the participant wrote minus the writing errors per THS-R criteria, divided by the total number of characters written, and multiplied by 100. The minimum is 0, and the maximum is 100. The higher values represent better treatment outcome.
SML excels CON in manuscript transcription speed
时间窗: Change from Baseline letters per minute at 3 months
Assess by WSCT.Speed was derived from the total number of letters written timed 60, divided by the total number of seconds used, and recorded as number of letters per minute. The minimum is 0, and there is no maximum. The higher values represent better treatment outcome.
SML excels CON in script transcription speed
时间窗: Change from Baseline letters per minute at 3 months
Assess by WSCT. Speed was derived from the total number of letters written timed 60, divided by the total number of seconds used, and recorded as number of letters per minute. The minimum is 0, and there is no maximum. The higher values represent better treatment outcome.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Mary H. Teng
Principal Investigator
Teng, Mary H.