Examination of Virtual Supermarket (Vmall) as an Assessment of Executive Functions in Children and Adolescents With Acquired Brain Injury

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Brain Injuries

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00425958

SHEBA-05-3856-AB-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to find whether or not there are differences in the executive functions during "shopping" in a "virtual mall", between children with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) vs healthy children.

The hypothesis is that there will be differences in time (more time to shop) and mistakes (more mistakes during shopping), in the ABI group.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children with ABI
• at least a year after injury
• who have been discharged from hospital and back home

Exclusion criteria

• children with learning disabilities former to injury
• visual disabilities or developmental disabilities