Mobility and Attention Capacity in Former Premature Children (PAM)

Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Status: Completed

Conditions: Attention Concentration Difficulty; Mobility Limitation

Treatments: Other: speed and accuracy answer to visual stimuli

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03125447

2017-A00327-46

Details and patient eligibility

About

Attention functions have a major impact on children's social and school behavior. They are an important issue for prematurely born children often seen as having learning difficulties and being restless, when it could be an adaptative answer to attention disorders. The aim of this study is to evaluate attention capacity in former premature children aged 6-7 years old with regards to different postures or mobility, for the attention functions of orienting, alerting and executive control. The Attention Network Test using reaction time and accuracy to visual stimuli will be used to evaluate attention functions in each posture and mobility.

Full description

Attention functions have a major impact on children's social, school and emotional adjustment. They are one of the most common issues for prematurely born children with implications in academic and social-behavioral functioning. Prematurely born infants are often seen as having excessive mobility or being restless when it could be an adaptative answer to attention disorders leading to learning difficulties. Respecting spontaneous mobility could improve attention performance in vulnerable children. The aim of the study is to evaluate global attention performance of former premature children at the preschool age of 6 to 7 years. This evaluation will be done in three usual postures or mobility, and for the 3 attentional functions of orienting, alerting or executive control. They will be compared within the prematurely born children group and to term born controls of the same age. The Attention Network Test adapted to children by Rueda et al (Neuropsychologia 2004) using reaction time and accuracy to visual stimuli will be used to evaluate attention functions. Presentation of stimuli through virtual video glasses and collection of answers will be done thanks to a specific software.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Main Inclusion Criteria:

• Children born before 35 weeks gestation and routinely followed for their prematurity in the follow-up clinic of the Maternite Regionale Universitaire

Healthy term born children recruited after information leaflet displayed in the University but not the Hospital

Main Exclusion Criteria:

• Children with a visual or motor disability preventing the realization of the test

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 2 patient groups

Prematurely born children

Experimental group

Description:

Speed and accuracy answer to visual stimuli evaluated in 3 distinct posture/mobility situations

Treatment:

Other: speed and accuracy answer to visual stimuli

Term born children

Active Comparator group

Description:

Speed and accuracy answer to visual stimuli evaluated in 3 distinct posture/mobility situations

Treatment:

Other: speed and accuracy answer to visual stimuli