Effectiveness of Visual Cues and Verbal Storytelling in Teaching Preschool Children Zippering
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 28
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Zippering steps completed
研究概览
简要总结
Preschoolers are assigned to a control group or a comparison group to examine the efficacy of a new intervention to teach the skill of engaging and pulling up a zipper.
详细描述
Purpose: This pilot study compares the efficacy of a standard teaching zippering vest presented with general verbal prompts to a modified teaching zippering vest presented with a related story and vocabulary in the acquisition of zippering skills among typically developing preschoolers. Institutional Review Board approval and parent consent was obtained.
Design: An experimental two group pre-post test design was used. Setting: Research occurred in a local preschool. Participants: Participants were recruited from fifty 3.6-to 4.11-year-old preschoolers.
Intervention: Eligible children received 3 zippering practice sessions with either a standard zippering vest (control group) or a modified vest with added visual and language cues (comparison group).
The treatment protocol for both cohorts of participants was administered over a three-week time period to minimize the impact of normal development.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Care Provider)
盲法说明
Preschoolers are not aware of whether they receive zippering instruction using a standard teaching zippering vest or the modified one. The parents were not aware which group their child was put in. All children received extra practice with zippering, in both groups.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 42 Months 至 60 Months（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Child must be typically developing as assessed by the Developmental Assessment of Young Children 2 (DAYC-2) developmental screening.
- •Child must be between 42 and 60 months of age. Child must be unable to zip by a) parent report and b) three observed attempts to zipper -
排除标准
- •Child must meet inclusion criteria and be present at school during three researcher visits to the preschool within three consecutive weeks.
结局指标
主要结局
Zippering steps completed
时间窗: all data was collected within three weeks for each child to minimize the impact of typical development
The task of engaging and pulling up a zipper was broken down to 7 steps. By examining video data, the number of zippering steps completed was analyzed for each zippering trial.
次要结局
未报告次要终点