Impact of Sports Activity on Pragmatic Skills of Children

NCT04593576 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: REC/00807 Saman Javaid
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

To investigate the effects of structured physical exercises/outdoor sports on social interaction/communication skills of children with Autism in Pakistan.

Conditions

Autistic Disorder of Childhood Onset With Full Syndrome

Keywords

outdoor sports; physical activity; communication skills

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Social Interaction tasks ABLLS-R (Assessment of basic language learning Skills-Revised)

  Changes from baseline, It provides a comprehensive review of the social interaction. It has 34 tasks having 0-4 scoring. Minimum score is 0 and maximum score is 134. It provides a comprehensive review of areas including language, social interaction, self-help, academic and motor skills. The task items within each skill area are arranged from simpler to more complex tasks. Social Interaction comprises of 34 tasks that would be used as a measuring tool in this study.

  15 days

Study Arms (2)

Structured physical activity/outdoor sports.

EXPERIMENTAL

Out door sports and structured physical activity protocol will be administered on children with Autism.

Other: Physical activity protocol/out door sports

Intensive table teaching control group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Control group will only be exposed to intensive table teaching instead of physical activity protocol.

Other: Intensive table teaching speech therapy

Interventions

Physical activity protocol/out door sports OTHER

Warm up exercise will be administered for 10 minutes, then one-to-five small group of instruction based activity will be administered for 15 minutes. After this whole group will be engaged in ball exercise and cooperative ball games for 20 minutes. At the end cool down and reward activity will be done with participants for 15v minutes. Total 1 hour physical activity protocol will be administered twice a week.

Structured physical activity/outdoor sports.

Intensive table teaching speech therapy OTHER

Control group participants will be given speech therapy session based on intensive table teaching for 30 minutes twice a week.

Intensive table teaching control group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 5 Years - 7 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Male and female students with Autism (mild-moderate)
• Participants will be screened on short sensory profile, fulfilling the criteria of typical performance and probable difference will be included.

You may not qualify if:

• individuals with Autism along with any comorbid condition.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Riphah International University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Profiles

Rawalpindi, 46000, Pakistan

Location

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  PMID: 29486750 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Rabia Zubair, MS-SLP/T

  Riphah International University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 13, 2020
• First Posted: October 20, 2020
• Study Start: October 20, 2020
• Primary Completion: April 10, 2021
• Study Completion: April 10, 2021
• Last Updated: June 29, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

PA (1)