Improvement in Preschoolers' Participation as a Result of Occupational Therapy Intervention

Clalit Health Services

Status: Completed

Conditions: Limited Participation in Daily Life Activities

Treatments: Other: direct occupational therapy intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02774135

COM150203CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the improvement of participation in everyday occupation among preschool children with mild developmental disabilities as a result of Occupational Therapy intervention.

Full description

Preschoolers suffering from mild developmental disabilities are being referred to Occupational Therapy (OT) clinics according to limitation in participating of daily occupations. As well these children often demonstrate behavior or emotional difficulties. The primary treatment goal is promoting participation yet many times the treatment focuses on child's performance skills and not on occupation based activities. Respectively its outcome measures are the child performance skills. This study will document the therapeutic intervention, and evaluate its impact on child participation as well on his performance skills and emotional aspects. Participants will be recruited from waiting list for Occupational Therapy at Clalit Health services, Child Development Institute, and will be evaluate four times. First time on referral to waiting list ( At the present time due to long waiting list, children are waiting about three to four months before starting OT intervention), second time before treatment, third time after three of treatments and last follow-up after three months.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 54 to 83 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• kindergarten students of regular education
• Hebrew speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Students of special education
• Attending physiotherapy or psychology treatments
• Autistic Spectrum Disorder
• Cerebral Palsy
• Spina Bifida
• Developmental Intellectual Disabilities
• Blindness
• Deafness

Trial design

52 participants in 1 patient group

direct occupational therapy intervention

Description:

group will be evaluated 4 times: on referral to waiting list for treatment, before and after 9-12 direct individual treatments of 45 minutes, and follow-up after 3 months.

Treatment:

Other: direct occupational therapy intervention