Effects of Infant Massage on Development of Down Syndrome Babies

University of Seville

Status: Completed

Conditions: Down Syndrome

Treatments: Procedure: Infant Massage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03084497

USeville - EPinto

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of ths study is to know the effects of infant massage in the maturation of the baby with Down syndrome. Scale Psychomotor Development Early Childhood Brunet-Lézine-Revised will be used to measure the maturational development of the baby with Down syndrome . Investigators will analyze two groups of intervention, the experimental group, in which parents will participate and will apply the knowledge learned in the course of Infant Massage and control, which does not receive the Infant Massage course during the study. Babies in both groups will be evaluated twice, at the beginning of the intervention (pretest) and end it after five weeks (posttest). The study population consists of 32 babies with Down syndrome between 4 and 8 months old.

Full description

In this study, the investigators will compare the maturational development of the experimental group Down syndrome babies (will receive infant massage in the period between the two measurements) with the maturational development of the control group Down syndrome babies (will receive infant massage after two measurements). Assess both the development partial motor, cognitive, language and social, and also the maturational development global. Finally, measure also the ratio of development, both in the pretest as on the posttest. The test that will use to measure the development of them babies is the scale of development psychomotor of her first childhood Brunet-Lezine-R. The babies of the study may hay between 4 and 8 months old.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 8 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Babies with Down Syndrome that received Early Attention.

Exclusion criteria

Babies with Down syndrome:

• With associated pathology.
• Adopted.
• Have received infant massage course.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Group receiving Infant Massage

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects of this group will receive a total of 5 sessions of Infat Massage.

Treatment:

Procedure: Infant Massage

Group without intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

The subjects of this group won´t receive any intervention.