Effects of VR in Children With DCD: Randomized Controlled Trial

Hacettepe University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Developmental Coordination Disorder

Participation, Patient

Sensory Disorder

Executive Dysfunction

Motor Skills Disorders

Visual Perceptual Weakness

Virtual Reality

Treatments

Other: virtual reality

Other: conventional occupational therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06246318

VR24

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of VR application on motor, cognitive and sensory-perceptual skills, and activity and participation levels in children with DCD.

The hypotheses on which the study proposal is based are as follows:

H0: VR application has no effect on motor skills in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on motor skills in children with DCD.
H0: VR application has no effect on cognitive skills in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on cognitive skills in children with DCD.
H0: VR application has no effect on sensory-perception skills in children with DCD.

H1: VR application has an effect on sensory-perception skills in children with DCD.
H0: VR application has no effect on the functional independence levels in daily living activities in children with DCD.

H1: VR application has an effect on the functional independence levels in daily living activities in children with DCD.
H0: VR application has no effect on participation levels in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on participation levels in children with DCD.

Full description

Within the scope of our aims;

To determine the gross motor skill levels of children with DCD and to obtain the effect of VR application on gross motor skill levels.
To determine the executive function skill levels of children with DCD and to obtain the effect of VR application on executive function skill levels.
To determine the sensory-perception skill levels of children with DCD and to obtain the effect of VR application on sensory-perception skill levels.
To determine the functional independence of children with DCD in daily life and to obtain the effect of VR application on their functional independence levels.
It is aimed to determine the participation levels of children with DCD and to obtain the effect of VR application on their participation levels.

Enrollment

48 patients

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 8 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Being between 5-8 years old,
It is to get 15-46 points from the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire for ages 5-7 and 15-55 points for ages 8.

Exclusion criteria

Those who are receiving any other therapy program,
have vision (other than glasses) or hearing problems,
Children with any neurological disorder will not be included in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

48 participants in 2 patient groups

virtual reality plus conventional occupational therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual reality will be given to the study group in addition to the conventional occupational therapy program. Nintendo Wii Fit Plus will be used as the virtual reality method in the research.

Treatment:

Other: virtual reality

Other: conventional occupational therapy

conventional occupational therapy

Other group

Description:

This is a control group. Sensory integration and gross motor training approaches are used in the conventional occupational therapy program.

Treatment:

Other: conventional occupational therapy