SKIPping With PAX: An Integrated Gross Motor and Social-Emotional Skill Intervention

University of South Carolina

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gross Motor Development Delay; Social Behavior; Social Skills; Sedentary Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Integrated Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04656990

Pro00091603

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to test the effects of an integrated intervention on the gross motor and social-emotional development of rural preschool boys and girls. A secondary purpose was to examine intervention effects on physical activity and sedentary behavior. An exploratory aim was to examine the role of executive functioning skills on intervention outcomes. This study featured a repeated measures (baseline, six-month posttest, three month retention [nine-month follow-up]), control group, experimental design. Classrooms were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control groups. Experimental participants received intervention while control participants received business as usual curricula.

Enrollment: 277 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrolled in the early childhood center, aged 4-5 years

Exclusion criteria

• Enrolled in special education classroom

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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277 participants in 2 patient groups

Gross motor and social-emotional integrated intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive a nine-month intervention which focuses on gross motor skills, physical activity, and social-emotional skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Integrated Intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will receive the center's everyday business as usual curriculum.