Physical Activity, Sports and Health in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

University of Copenhagen

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Intellectual Disability

Treatments: Other: Physical activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT05336487

2553227/4242

Details and patient eligibility

About

Currently, there is a paucity of quality research within the field of health science with a focus on persons with intellectual disabilities, and especially how longer lasting periods of varied physical activity affects the target group. There is a lack of insight, in how persons with intellectual disabilities learns and retains movement skills. Thus, the research group behind this project will investigate the following research questions:

1. Does 40 weeks of intense and varied sports and physical activities as an intervention lead to positive changes in health status for adults with intellectual disabilities?
2. Can lasting effects be measured three and six months after the intervention?
3. Does the intervention improve the motor competences for the participants?
4. How does defined groups of adult persons with Down syndrome and Cerebral Palsy learn and retain a new motor skill?

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Presence of an intellectual disability

Exclusion criteria

• Participants under guardianship
• Unable to give informed consent to participate on their own

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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85 participants in 2 patient groups

Physical Activity group (PA-group)

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group. Participants with intellectual disabilities is recruited from a local daily activity center, where the participants participate in teacher-organized physical activity \~2 hours/day, 5 days/week.

Treatment:

Other: Physical activity

Control Group (CON-group)

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group. The participants with intellectual disabilities is recruited from daily activity centers, which does not use physical activity in their daily work with the participants.