Efficacy of an Intervention to Teach Zippering: A Two-Group Control Study

Salus University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Typical Preschoolers Who Can Not Zipper

Treatments: Behavioral: Modified zippering vest; Behavioral: Standard zippering vest

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04185324

SalusU

Details and patient eligibility

About

Preschoolers are assigned to a control group or a comparison group to examine the efficacy of a new intervention to teach the skill of engaging and pulling up a zipper.

Full description

Purpose: This pilot study compares the efficacy of a standard teaching zippering vest presented with general verbal prompts to a modified teaching zippering vest presented with a related story and vocabulary in the acquisition of zippering skills among typically developing preschoolers. Institutional Review Board approval and parent consent was obtained.

Design: An experimental two group pre-post test design was used. Setting: Research occurred in a local preschool. Participants: Participants were recruited from fifty 3.6-to 4.11-year-old preschoolers.

Intervention: Eligible children received 3 zippering practice sessions with either a standard zippering vest (control group) or a modified vest with added visual and language cues (comparison group).

The treatment protocol for both cohorts of participants was administered over a three-week time period to minimize the impact of normal development.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 42 to 60 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Child must be typically developing as assessed by the Developmental Assessment of Young Children 2 (DAYC-2) developmental screening.

Child must be between 42 and 60 months of age. Child must be unable to zip by a) parent report and b) three observed attempts to zipper -

Exclusion Criteria:

Child must meet inclusion criteria and be present at school during three researcher visits to the preschool within three consecutive weeks.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard zippering vest

Experimental group

Description:

Children receive three supervised sessions for them to practice engaging and pull up a zipper, using a standard teaching zippering vest.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard zippering vest

Modified zippering vest

Experimental group

Description:

Children receive three sessions of specially designed zippering instruction using a modified zippering vest, where they can practice engaging and pulling up a zipper after being read a related story.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Modified zippering vest