Learning and Encouragement Effect on 6 Minute Walking Test in Children Between 6 and 12 Years

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Children

Treatments: Other: six minute walking test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03276299

Child6MWT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of the learning and encouragement effect on six minutes walking test in children under 12 years

Enrollment: 148 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy subjects

Exclusion criteria

• acute or chronic lung, cardiac or neuromuscular disease
• at risk of- or overweight (BMI higher than 85th percentile for children of the same age and sex)
• a motor disability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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148 participants in 4 patient groups

test 1

Active Comparator group

Description:

six minute walking test

Treatment:

Other: six minute walking test

Other: six minute walking test

test 2

Experimental group

Description:

six minute walking test

Treatment:

Other: six minute walking test

Other: six minute walking test

test with encouragement

Experimental group

Description:

six minute walking test

Treatment:

Other: six minute walking test

Other: six minute walking test

test without encouragement

Active Comparator group

Description:

six minute walking test

Treatment:

Other: six minute walking test

Other: six minute walking test