Piloting Home-based Movement-to-Music Among Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial (M2MCP)

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Behavioral: Movement-to-music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04264390

AACPDMJIA012001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study pilots the efficacy of a home-based movement-to-music program for increasing physical activity participation among adolescents with cerebral palsy. Half of the participants will receive the movement-to-music program immediately, which will include 4 weeks of exercise videos and periodic behavioral coaching calls. The other half of participants will wait 4 weeks before receiving the M2M program.

Full description

The movement-to-music program has been tested among adults with physical disabilities and is currently being used in ongoing scale-up clinical trials. Current evidence suggests that the program can increase aspects of physical function among adults. The present study aims to test whether the same program can be used among adolescents with cerebral palsy. Study findings will be used to examine whether the videos require modifications prior to being implemented in a future scale-up trial for adolescents people with cerebral palsy.

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Have a diagnosis of cerebral palsy
2. Be able to exercise with arms or be assisted through the movements by a parent
3. Be between the ages of 10-19 years
4. Have access to a Wi-Fi Internet connection at your home
5. Have access to a device that Is capable of viewing videos from YouTube (a television, computer tablet, laptop, or desktop)

Exclusion criteria

1. Does more than 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per day in a normal week
2. Has complete blindness or deafness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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59 participants in 2 patient groups

M2M

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive and be instructed to follow-along with 4 weeks of movement-to-music videos. Participants will also receive periodic behavioral coaching calls from a telecoach.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Movement-to-music

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will wait 4 weeks before starting the M2M program. Participants will be instructed to resume their normal daily activities during the wait-period.