Effects of Parent-child Co-participation in Physical Activity

Bayburt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD

Treatments: Behavioral: A parent-child co-participation in physical activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07236346

BU-SPBF-EY-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Literature reviews and studies of physical activity (PA) interventions suggest that active parental involvement is an important component of supporting PA levels in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Parents have also viewed these interventions as a valuable source of social support and motivation for themselves and their children with ASD; however, parents have reported a lack of PA interventions specifically involving parental involvement to increase PA levels in their children.

To our knowledge, only a handful of PA studies in the literature have examined PA levels or fundamentals movement skills (FMS) in children with ASD and have included parental involvement. Overall, findings from previous studies have shown that PA interventions that include parental involvement successfully improve PA levels and FMS in children with ASD. Given the potential benefits and the increasing interest in family-based interventions, supporting parent-child co-participation in PA may be a possible strategy to promote PA among children and parents. To date, studies on parent-child co-participation in PA have mostly focused on improving PA levels and FMS in children with ASD using web-based interventions such as social media, websites, and online systems. Furthermore, with the exception of two studies, the focus of these studies was on PA levels and not FMS in children with ASD. Furthermore, not all previous studies have created PA groups with and without parental involvement to explore whether parent-child co-participation truly makes a difference. We addressed these limitations in the current study and used a design that included a parent-child PA group, a child PA group, and a control group to examine both PA levels and FMS in children with ASD. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of parent-child co-participation on PA levels and FMS in children with ASD.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 11 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• willingness to participate in the study,
• being the primary guardian of a child with ASD between,
• having an ASD diagnosis confirmed GARS-2-TV,
• being between the ages of four and eleven,
• being able to walk independently.

Exclusion criteria

• those who do not attend at least one of the sessions of the training program,
• children with physical health problems (based on self-report and clinical diagnosis) will be excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 3 patient groups

parent-child group

Experimental group

Description:

This group included parental involvement. Parents and children engaged in PA together three days a week, each session lasting approximately one hour.

Treatment:

Behavioral: A parent-child co-participation in physical activity

child group

Experimental group

Description:

This group did not include parental involvement. Only children with ASD engaged in PA three days a week, each session lasting approximately 1 hour.

Treatment:

Behavioral: A parent-child co-participation in physical activity

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group continued their normal routines and activities throughout the intervention.