A Teleintervention in Developmental Coordination Disorder

Developmental Coordination Disorder Clinical Trial

— DCD  

Official title:

A Randomized Feasibility Trial Evaluating a Teleintervention for Families of Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03141333
• Other study ID #: usherbrooke
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 6, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: January 2017
• Source: Université de Sherbrooke
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The principal study goals are to determine if a randomized control trial would be feasible, particularly with regards to i) recruitment and retention of parents of children having a diagnosis or a suspicion of diagnosis of DCD, and ii) parents' utilization of the teleintervention. The study will also examine quantitatively and qualitatively families' acceptability of- and satisfaction with the teleintervention.

Description:

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by difficulties in planning and execution of motor coordination activities like dressing, sports and writing. Increasing parents' capacity to manage their children's needs is part of the recommended DCD best practices, as soon as children are suspected to have DCD or early following diagnosis. Parents' capacity could be increased through simple, community-based interventions using a consultative approach. Using the Internet could be an interesting avenue to develop public community-based services and build parents' capacity to manage their child with DCD. The feasibility of recruiting and using the Internet to build parents' capacity is however unknown, since no such study have been conducted.

This randomized feasibility trail will experiment a teleintervention, characterized by a virtual interaction between a health professional and a user by Internet, for children with DCD. The principal study goals are to determine if a randomized control trial would be feasible, particularly with regards to i) recruitment and retention of parents of children having a diagnosis or a suspicion of diagnosis of DCD, and ii) parents' utilization of the teleintervention. The study will also examine quantitatively and qualitatively families' acceptability of- and satisfaction with the teleintervention. As part of the evaluation of acceptability, the impact of the teleintervention on parental competencies will be explored. At the end of the 3-months randomized feasibility trial, the influence of the number of participants on the utilization of the teleintervention will be explored by providing access to the teleintervention to all participants (control and intervention).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 31
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: May 12, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• A DCD medical diagnostic (or DCD medical hypothesis)

• Must be at or under the 16e percentile for the global score at the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) or be at or under the 5e for one of the 3 subscale of the MABC-2.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Do not have other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, with the exception of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Do not receive rehabilitation services for DCD in the public health care system

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Ataxia
• Developmental Coordination Disorder
• Disease
• Motor Skills Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Teleintervention
Participants of this group will have access to the following sections in the web plate-form: information, forum, chat and live online consultation. The teleintervention consists of having access to the forum, chat and live online consultation sections of the web plate-form.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	CR CHUS	Sherbrooke	Quebec

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Université de Sherbrooke

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Utilization of the teleintervention	Time spent on the web plate-form (calculated in minutes, time spent on the plate-form during the 3 months teleintervention)	3 months (from day 1 to study completion)
Secondary	Recruitment and retention	Number of participants recruited and retention rate	Number of participants at baseline and at completion of the study (3 months later)
Secondary	Parents' sense of competencies	Parenting Sense of Competence Scale	Collected at baseline and at completion of the study (3 months later)
Secondary	Parents' satisfaction with the intervention	Qualitative interviews	At completion of the study (3 months following the begining of the teleintervention)