Interactive Digital Game for Improving Visual Perceptual Defects in Children With Developmental Disability

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Developmental Disability

Treatments: Device: Visual-perceptual interactive game system; Behavioral: standard rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05016492

KMUHIRB-SV(II)-20150090

Details and patient eligibility

About

Visual perceptual defects in children can negatively affect their activities of daily living.The aims of this study were to develop and evaluate an interactive digital game system for correcting visual perceptual defects and to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Record of developmental disability diagnosis
• Ability to understand instructions
• TVPS-3 score lower than 25% of the norm reference and diagnosis of visual perceptual defect
• Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-3rd Edition score higher than 70

Exclusion criteria

• Did not follow or understand the instructions for participating in the study
• Had severe defects in vision, hearing, etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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23 participants in 2 patient groups

Digital game group

Experimental group

Description:

The digital game group received the standard 4-week course of rehabilitation but with an additional 30-min interactive digital game training session per week.

Treatment:

Device: Visual-perceptual interactive game system

Behavioral: standard rehabilitation

Standard rehab group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The standard rehab group received the standard 4-week course of rehabilitation delivered in one 30-min session per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: standard rehabilitation