View clinical trials related to Intellectual Disability.
Filter by:The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of a physical and occupational therapy program on academic skills in a sample of Egyptian children with intellectual disability. It also aims to provide a program based on physical and occupational therapy activities and techniques to develop children's basic abilities through play to make learning more enjoyable
The study aims to examine the effectiveness of a psychotherapy approach called Facilitator-guided Acceptance and Commitment Bibliotherapy (FAB) in improving the psychological health of parents of young children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) and reducing the emotional and behavioral symptoms of NDD children. The study will involve 154 Cantonese-speaking parents of children aged 2-6 years diagnosed with NDD in Hong Kong. The study hopes to find that FAB can improve parent-child dyads' health outcomes by enhancing psychological flexibility, parental psychological health, and mindful parenting skills.
Physical inactivity is an increasing problem in the general population in society. However, in people with disabilities, inactivity is even more frequently reported. Physical activity on prescription (PAP) is a well-established method to enhance physical activity. The prescribed physical activity can be activities such as walking, cycling, swimming, or gardening, and should be performed over a longer period. In children with cerebral palsy, PAP has shown to be feasible to increase participation in physical activity and to reduce sedentary behaviour, and the habilitation services in the Region of Skåne have decided to offer PAP to all children and youth with disabilities. It is of great importance to study these interventions when applied on a broader group of patients than previously studied. The aim is to study the effects of an individualised and health-enhancing intervention in physically inactive people with autism, intellectual and physical disabilities. Also, the cost-effectiveness of PAP will be studied. 60 physically inactive children, aged 8- 17 years, and 20 adults, with autism, intellectual or physical disability will be included. The participants are recruited by their clinical physiotherapists, who also will be carrying out the PAP-intervention. The self-selected physical activity/activities may either be a physical activity organized by a club and/or an everyday activity such as walking a dog or riding a bicycle to school. Each participant fills in an activity logbook. Motivational interviewing will be used to support the participants. The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure can be used to identify what activities the participants are motivated to do, and to detect changes in the participants' perception of their performance of the activity. Quality of life will be monitored. Physical activity will be measured through the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and a movement monitor (accelerometer). Study specific questionnaires will be filled in regarding costs and background information. Data on health care use of the participants will retrospectively be collected and studied using the health care database in Region Skåne. Data will be collected at 3 months prior to the intervention, just before the intervention starts, when the intervention is finished, and at 6, 12 and 24 months after the intervention. The study has been approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority.
The investigation team propose in this study to specifically evaluate the feasibility of using oxytocin in the form of an intranasal spray in a specific population of children with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. The lack of studies centered on this population on the one hand, and on the other hand the severity of challenging behaviors presented by these children, make questionable the direct transfer of methods of care used in patients who do not present these challenging behavior. In this sense, the establishment of oxytocin treatment in these children requires a preliminary phase of feasibility assessment before being able to consider a comparative trial of the randomized clinical trial type.
In the proposed study, the investigators aim to investigate whether the existing ABAS-3 self-report questionnaire is suitable to be completed meaningfully by individuals who are perceived as having mild intellectual disability (55<IQ<85) based on cognitive impairment. Based on the participants' experiences and researchers' expertise, the investigators develop a 'more inclusive' self-report version. The investigators then look at the extent to which participants indicate that they understand this version better, based on user experiences and limited psychometric research. In doing so, the investigators also compare the outcomes of the self-report and informant-report variant.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a written language intervention using functional texts for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A controlled pre-post design study on Take it Personal! has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing the frequency and severity of youth use of alcohol, cannabis or other illicit drugs. Take it Personal! is an existing indicated prevention programme for substance use in youth with a mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning that addresses each participant's high-risk personality traits for substance abuse. The current Take it Personal! programme is further developed and optimized in collaboration with relevant stakeholders. In particular, the investigators aim to integrate personalized daily diary monitoring in the programme so that trainers can monitor client progresses closely and gain insights into change mechanisms, providing starting points for therapeutic efforts in programme sessions. The investigators conduct a series of case studies with a non-concurrent multiple baseline design to evaluate the effectiveness of Take it Personal!. The baseline lengths are randomly determined, and therefore the start of the intervention is staggered across participants.
The study has 10 research questions regarding the cognitive training program and tablet-based interactive games: Primary study questions: 1. Can the participation of 12-week cognitive training program using tablet-based interactive games maintain cognitive functioning? Secondary study questions: 2. Can the participation of 12-week cognitive training program using tablet-based interactive games improve the scores of 6 supplier-developed cognitive domains (including executive function, memory, eye-hand coordination, attention, visual-spatial ability, language)? 3. Can the participation of 12-week cognitive training program using tablet-based interactive games improve the reaction time of the participants? 4. What is the attendance rate in the cognitive training program, and for how long do the participants play the tablet-based interactive games? 5. What is the usability and acceptability of the tablet-based interactive games? Auxiliary study questions: 6. Can the participation of 12-week cognitive training program using tablet-based interactive games reduce neuropsychiatric symptoms? 7. Can the participation of 12-week cognitive training program using tablet-based interactive games improve upper-body flexibility? 8. What are the physical side effects of using digital devices in the 12-week cognitive training program? 9. What are the perceived benefits and feasibility of the cognitive training program and tablet-based interactive games? 10. Can the participation of 12-week cognitive training program using tablet-based interactive games improve activities of daily living of persons with intellectual disability?
The study has 6 research questions regarding the use of the anti-wandering system in day activity centre cum hostel for persons with intellectual disabilities: Primary study questions: 1. Can the anti-wandering system reduce the time in seconds to turn off the alarm made by the system (a proxy measure of the response time of care staff)? 2. Can the anti-wandering system reduce the burden of care staff on keeping track of the residents? Secondary study questions: 3. How many alarms does the anti-wandering system generate? 4. How many false alarms does the anti-wandering system made as reported by staff? Auxiliary study questions: 5. What are the reasons for keeping or loosening restrictions on users due to the use of the anti-wandering system? 6. What are the perceived benefits and feasibility of anti-wandering system compared to conventional anti-wandering practices?
Analyze genetic and biological markers in patients with Intellectual Deficiencies (ID) of genetic origin in order to better understand the mechanisms of modified genes, cellular mechanisms, pathways involved in different disorders , complications and pathologies associated with ID of genetic origin.