A Teleintervention in Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

Université de Sherbrooke

Status: Completed

Conditions: Developmental Coordination Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Teleintervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03141333

usherbrooke

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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).

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Teleintervention

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Teleintervention

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants of this group will have access to the following section of the web plate-form: information, which is consistent with the standard of care for many families of children with DCD, who only have access to online information but do not have access to any type of intervention.