Effects of Sensory Diets on Children's Sensory Processing Skills, Psychosocial Skills, and Classroom Engagement

Autism Clinical Trial

Official title: Effects of Sensory Diets on a Child's Sensory Processing Skills, Psychosocial Skills, and Classroom Engagement

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study investigated the effects of a sensory diet intervention program on five children with a sensory processing disorder. The effect was investigated on children's sensory processing skills, psychosocial skills, and classroom engagement.

Clinical Trial Description

Sensory diets are one of the interventions occupational therapists use in school-based settings to manage manifestations of sensory processing disorder. However, very few studies have investigated the effectiveness of sensory diets, and the results of these studies were mixed. Past studies also had methodological limitations. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of sensory diets on children's sensory processing skills, psychosocial skills, and engagement in classroom activities. This study used a single-subject ABCA design. Five children between the ages of five and eleven years participated in the study. The study consisted of an initial baseline phase A1, the control intervention phase B, sensory diets intervention phase C, and the second baseline phase A2. Each phase lasted for seven days. The PI videotaped each participant for fifteen minutes each school day during all phases to collect the data. The participants were videotaped during classroom group activities. Visual analysis of the data showed that sensory diets had a positive effect on participants' sensory processing, psychosocial skills, and classroom engagement. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Autism
• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Special Education

• NCT number: NCT04167839
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Pingale, Vidya, OTR
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 6, 2017
• Completion date: February 15, 2018