Effects of Active Video Gaming on Pre-handwriting Skills of Children With Down Syndrome.

NCT05978778 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: REC/RCR&AHS/23/0722
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Down's syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by trisomy 21. Down's syndrome is most common genetic mental disability that affects children physically, mentally and functionally. It occurs due to an extra copy of chromosome 21. It involves a slightly flattened facial profile, low muscle tone upward-slanted eyes, and ligamentous laxity. Central hypotonia, mental retardation and short stature are very common features of children with down's syndrome. Children with down's syndrome are characterized by awkward movements, gait, increased flexibility of joints, timing of mastering of basic skills and , under-development of fine motor skills. Active video gaming used different games that involve interactive session that can enhance cortical recognition, motor learning and functional profile of children with DS. The objective of this study is to determine the effects of active video gaming on pre-hand writing skills of children with down's syndrome. This will be a RCT(Randomized Controlled Trial).The sample size was 18 and the study design was a case-control trial. The inclusion criteria are children with down syndrome age 6 to 12 years both male and female patients are randomly selected and children with poor pre-hand writing skills. And the exclusion criteria for this study is children with any other neurological condition like (epilepsy, instability of atlantoaxial joints, cardiac anomalies,) vision, and hearing loss. Two groups were randomly assigned and equally divided patients into each group. Group A received pre-handwriting skills, like tracing alphabets and numbers, scribbling, coloring, painting, and group B received active video gaming and prehandwriting skills. For measuring each group developmental coordination disorder questionnaire tool is used. The session will be taken 30 mins thrice a week for (8consecutive weeks). Data collected from different centers, Raising sun institute of special education. Autism resource center Lahore. SPSS for Windows software, version 25 will be used to analyze the data using statistical Significance p=0.05. The Shapiro-Wilk test will be used to check the normality of data. Keywords: Active video gaming, Down syndrome, Computer game, Fine motor skills, Pre-hand writing skills, Virtual reality gaming.

Conditions

Down Syndrome

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• pre handwriting skills syndrome.

  bilateral hand use will determine by box and ball test children with down syndrome.

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

controlled group

OTHER

Nine children will be randomly allocated to control group who receive only pre-hand writing skills.

Other: pre-hand writing skills

Experimental group

EXPERIMENTAL

Nine children will be randomly allocated to experimental group who receive active video gaming along with pre-hand writing skills.

Device: wii sports game; Other: pre-hand writing skills

Interventions

wii sports game DEVICE

wii sports is a collection five sports game stimulation,which have been designed to demonstrate the motion sensing capabilities of wii remote

Also known as: video gaming

Experimental group

pre-hand writing skills OTHER

pre-hand writing skills

Experimental group; controlled group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 5 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Age 5 to 14 years.
• Both male and female patient diagnosed with down syndrome.
• Able to understand and follow verbal command.
• Down syndrome children with pre-hand writing skills are not good.
• Difficulty in fine motor skills.

You may not qualify if:

• Patients will have any neurological sign (epilepsy, instability of the atlantoaxial joint, cardiac anomalies, vision and hearing loss, speech loss.
• Musculoskeletal and mobility disorder.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Riphah International University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Lingua Speech Model town

Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Location

Related Publications (1)

• O'BRIEN JC, O'BRIEN MO. Educational Systems. Pediatric Skills for Occupational Therapy Assistants E-Book. 2020 Jul 12:46.

  BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Down Syndrome

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Intellectual Disability; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Abnormalities, Multiple; Congenital Abnormalities; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Chromosome Disorders; Genetic Diseases, Inborn

Study Officials

• Nageen Zahra, ms

  Ripha International Univerity

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: Effects of active video gaming on pre-handwriting skills of children with down's syndrome.
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Effects of active video gaming on pre-handwriting skills of children with down's syndrome.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 31, 2023
• First Posted: August 7, 2023
• Study Start: May 27, 2023
• Primary Completion: August 31, 2023
• Study Completion: September 15, 2023
• Last Updated: November 13, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

PA (1)