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

Down Syndrome Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05978778
• Other study ID #: REC/RCR&AHS/23/0722
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 27, 2023
• Est. completion date: September 15, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: Riphah International University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Description:

To determine the effects of active video gaming on pre-hand writing skills of children with down syndrome.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: September 15, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 14 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 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.

Exclusion Criteria:

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

• Musculoskeletal and mobility disorder.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Down Syndrome
• Syndrome

Intervention

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

Other:
• pre-hand writing skills
pre-hand writing skills

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Pakistan	Lingua Speech Model town	Lahore	Punjab

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Riphah International University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Pakistan, 

References & Publications (1)

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

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	pre handwriting skills syndrome.	bilateral hand use will determine by box and ball test children with down syndrome.	6 months