Mobility and Attention Capacity in Former Premature Children

Mobility Limitation Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Posture and Mobility Influence on Attention Capacity in Former Premature Children at 6 Years of Age.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03125447
• Other study ID #: 2017-A00327-46
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 29, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Central Hospital, Nancy, France
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Attention functions have a major impact on children's social and school behavior. They are an important issue for prematurely born children often seen as having learning difficulties and being restless, when it could be an adaptative answer to attention disorders. The aim of this study is to evaluate attention capacity in former premature children aged 6-7 years old with regards to different postures or mobility, for the attention functions of orienting, alerting and executive control. The Attention Network Test using reaction time and accuracy to visual stimuli will be used to evaluate attention functions in each posture and mobility.

Description:

Attention functions have a major impact on children's social, school and emotional adjustment. They are one of the most common issues for prematurely born children with implications in academic and social-behavioral functioning. Prematurely born infants are often seen as having excessive mobility or being restless when it could be an adaptative answer to attention disorders leading to learning difficulties. Respecting spontaneous mobility could improve attention performance in vulnerable children. The aim of the study is to evaluate global attention performance of former premature children at the preschool age of 6 to 7 years. This evaluation will be done in three usual postures or mobility, and for the 3 attentional functions of orienting, alerting or executive control. They will be compared within the prematurely born children group and to term born controls of the same age. The Attention Network Test adapted to children by Rueda et al (Neuropsychologia 2004) using reaction time and accuracy to visual stimuli will be used to evaluate attention functions. Presentation of stimuli through virtual video glasses and collection of answers will be done thanks to a specific software.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 51
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years to 8 Years

Eligibility

Main Inclusion Criteria:

• Children born before 35 weeks gestation and routinely followed for their prematurity in the follow-up clinic of the Maternite Regionale Universitaire

Healthy term born children recruited after information leaflet displayed in the University but not the Hospital

Main Exclusion Criteria:

• Children with a visual or motor disability preventing the realization of the test

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attention Concentration Difficulty
• Mobility Limitation

Intervention

Other:
• speed and accuracy answer to visual stimuli
A yellow fish swimming over a blue-green background will appear on the screen of virtual glasses. The child will have to give as fast as possible the direction of the fish pushing the left or right button of a computer mouse

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Maternity Hospital CHRU	Nancy

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (1)

Rosenbaum J, Ceyte H, Hamon I, Deforge H, Hascoet AMJ, Caudron S, Hascoet JM. Influence of body mobility on attention networks in school-aged prematurely born children: A controlled trial. Front Pediatr. 2022 Sep 8;10:928541. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.928541 — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Reaction time to respond to visual stimuli appearance	48 trials of swimming fishes displayed for a maximum of 2500 msec in different conditions: the reaction time in msec will be recorded and evaluated	5 minutes
Secondary	Accuracy to the response to visual stimuli direction	48 trials of swimming fishes to the right or the left hand side where the child has to give the right direction of the fish	5 minutes