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Filter by:Within the scope of the study, it was planned that risky babies would be treated with the SAFE early intervention approach for 10 weeks after they were discharged from the intensive care unit. Neurodevelopmental Treatment was applied to the control group. Sensory, motor and language development of the babies were evaluated before and after the intervention.
When looking at the literature, sensory-motor skills, self-regulation, executive functions, cognitive styles, and school readiness are strongly related concepts. Self-regulation skills are closely related to the maturity of sensory-motor components. Therefore, it is important to provide sensory-motor training with self-regulation strategies. However, no study investigating the effects of self-regulation strategies combined with sensory-motor training on school readiness, self-regulation, executive functions, and cognitive styles could be found in the literature. Our study aims to examine the effect of self-regulation strategies and occupational therapy-based sensory-motor training on self-regulation, cognitive skills, and school readiness in preschool children. The research will be carried out in two preschool classrooms of students aged 5-6 years registered for the 2022-2023 academic year at Özel Mavi Umut Eğitim Kurumları in Istanbul. A total of 38 children will participate in the study, 19 in the intervention group and 19 in the control group. While the control group continues their preschool education, the intervention group will receive group interventions including self-regulation strategies and sensory-motor skills training for 1 hour, twice a week, for 10 weeks, in addition to their regular preschool education. Metropolitan School Readiness Test, Kansas Pre-School Self-Concept Scale Form A, Childhood Executive Function Inventory, Pre-School Self-Regulation Scale, Dunn Sensory Profile, and Bruininks-Oseretsky Short Form 2 will use to evaluate both the intervention and control groups at 10-week intervals. The data obtained from the evaluations will be analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) 22.0 version. If the data follows a normal distribution, the Paired Student's t-test will be used for comparison, and if not, the Wilcoxon Matched Two-Sample Test will be used. Mean±standard deviation (X±SD) will be determined for the identified variables. A statistical significance level of p≤0.05 will be considered.
Purpose: It is the examination of the Infant Movement Motivation Questionnaire of the validity and reliability of Turkish. Pretest: Participants were informed about the aims of the study and fill in a consent form. They filled in a paper version of the Turkish translation of the Infant Movement Motivation Questionnaire. The parents had to answer questions about the content and meaning of the IMMQ items and sociodemographic. Validation Study: Participants were informed about the aims of the study and filled in a consent form. The questionnaires of the survey filled in at the early intervention center. About 30 minutes were needed to answer the 27 questions of the IMMQ, Ages and Stages Questionnaire, and sociodemographic.
The goal of this project is to investigate the acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of an innovative NICU rehabilitation program that will include six multimodal, gestational age (GA) appropriate, parent-administered interventions (vocal soothing, scent exchange, comforting touch, kangaroo care, infant massage and physical therapy). Using the general movement assessment (GMA) instrument, the investigators will determine the effects of this program on short-term motor outcomes (general movements (GMs), cranial nerves, posture, movements, tone, and reflexes) in premature infants (≤32 week's gestation and/or ≤1500 grams birthweight) identified as at-risk for CP. The short-term motor outcomes will be measured using the GMA, the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP) and the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE) instruments. This novel program will be applied during the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization when the brain is highly plastic and actively developing with the goal to mitigate severity of brain injury and its impact on development.
This study aimed to examine the relation between trunk control and gross motor performance in LBW and NBW infants.
This project will determine the preliminary efficacy of an innovative intergenerational intervention among Head Start preschoolers, aged 3-5 years, and their caregivers. A two-group cluster randomized controlled trial will be conducted. Six Head Start centers will be randomly assigned to the intervention (n=3) or control group (n=3), and an average of 6 caregiver-preschooler dyads will be recruited from each class (N=144 dyads from 16 classes). Grounded in an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, the 16-week intervention has 3 components: 1) a caregiver component, including 1a) a Facebook-based program with weekly electronic retrievable flyers providing health information and behavioral change strategies and 4 weekly habit-formation tasks to improve parenting practices and home environment for preschoolers; and 1b) 3 face-to-face or virtual meetings (weeks 1, 8, & 16) to establish personal connections and communication networks among caregivers, discuss strategies, and share community resources to support preschoolers' behavioral changes at home; 2) a caregiver-preschooler learning component via Facebook messenger to send preschooler letters to each caregiver privately by the research team twice per week to 2a) share the preschooler's experiences of learning at school and his/her interests for a healthy diet and physical activity at home, and 2b) elicit caregivers' response to the letters; and 3) a Head Start center-based preschooler component to help preschoolers establish healthy habits via weekly healthy diet and physical activity participatory learning.
Substance use problems are major concern in adolescents involved in Youth Protection Services. However, there is an enormous gap between the needs and availability of interventions for youth with substance use problems in the system. The present study will examine the feasibility and proof-of-concept of implementing an evidence-based, personality-targeted drug and alcohol prevention programme for high-risk adolescents (i.e., Preventure programme) receiving services from Youth Protection Services. Our goal is to examine the effects of these interventions on reducing rates of substance use outcomes, depression symptoms, and self-reported anxiety sensitivity and impulsivity at 3- and 6-month post-intervention. These primary outcomes were selected based on previous Preventure trials with the community samples, that indicated these factors largely accounted for the long-term intervention effects on improving substance use outcomes. The study will be conducted at Batshaw Youth and Family Centres, which provide psychosocial, rehabilitation and social integration services and services related to child placement and adoption to English-speaking youth from all regions of Quebec. Adolescents receiving services from Batshaw centres (N = 100, aged 14 and above) will be invited to participate in the study. All interested adolescents will be invited to attend one assessment session with the research team. Participants who score high on one of subscales of Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) (i.e., high-risk adolescents) will be invited to participate in two 90-minute group-based intervention sessions, which target their dominant personality profile. Sessions will be cognitive-behavioural in nature and are designed to help youth understand the target personality trait and develop adaptive coping strategies for managing that trait using motivational and cognitive restructuring techniques. The primary outcomes will be measured at baseline before receiving the interventions and then with 3-month and 6-month intervals after receiving the interventions to test whether these outcomes are significantly reduced after receiving the interventions. The results of this study will be used to plan the future directions of personality-targeted interventions for youth involved in Youth Protection Services.
Infants with developmental disabilities present a high risk of behavioral and socio-emotional problems. Their parents are themselves at risk of developing emotional and affective disorders which can impact the quality of the interaction with the infant. Early parenting empowerment focused on parent-infant interaction are beneficial in supporting infants development and parental adjustment. By using a multi-layer approach to outcomes assessment (i.e., behavioral, neuroendocrine and epigenetic outcomes), the present longitudinal, multi-center, change-promoting clinical trial is aimed at assessing the effectiveness of an early parenting empowerment intervention based on video-feedback technique to support maternal responsiveness and the socio-emotional development of infants with developmental disabilities.
This RCT aims to investigate the effect of an early family-based intervention (VIA Family) focusing on reducing risk and increasing resilience for children in families where at least one parent has a severe mental illness.The study is a randomized clinical trial including 100 children age 6-12 with familial high risk.The children and their parents will be assessed at baseline and thereafter randomized and allocated to either Treatment as Usual or VIA Family.
The hypothesis of this study is that early physical therapy intervention, initiated during the NICU stay and up to 2 months corrected age, based on the family-centered model, could promote preterm infants motor development in short-term (2 months corrected age) and long-term (8 months corrected age). There is a high evidence level of different systematic reviews, which support the effectivity of early intervention with preterm infants. The principal aim of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of early physiotherapy intervention to promote motor development in preterm infants at 2 and 8 months corrected age. The secondary purpose is to study the motor development of those preterm infants who received early physical therapy intervention.