Effects of a Task Oriented Intervention With Two Goal-setting Approaches

Region Gävleborg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Children; Learning Disability; Movement Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: parent-goal; Behavioral: child-goal

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02160886

RFR-296311

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized trial investigating if effects of a goal-directed task oriented intervention is influenced by who takes the decision and establishes the goal (the child or the parent) and whether establishing a goal per se influence performance and goal-achievement. The main hypothesis are that children's participation in the goal-setting process would positively influence goal achievement, children's self-identified goals would be achievable and that both groups would achieve goals that were the target of a goal-directed intervention.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• enrollment in pediatric rehabilitation, age between 5-12 years and any type of disability but functioning at or above a 5 year old level in receptive language.

Exclusion criteria

• involvement in another block of intensive intervention during the 5-month study period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

Child-goal

Experimental group

Description:

The children will receive goal- directed task oriented interventions based on goals identified by the children themselves, using the Swedish version of the Perceived Efficacy and Goal Setting System (PEGS). A PEGS interview will be performed with the children. The children identifies tasks they find difficult to perform and prioritize three tasks, they want to perform better, as goals for intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: child-goal

Parent-goal

Experimental group

Description:

The children will receive goal- directed task oriented interventions based on goals identified by the parents using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM). Using the COPM interview technique, the parents are encouraged to talk about an ordinary day to identify occupational performance issues their child is not able to perform. Identified performance issues are rated for importance and the parents selects the three most important issues as goals for intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: parent-goal