NCT02904980

The Effects of a Group-based Gaze Training Intervention for Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder

A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Group-based, Gaze Training Intervention for Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Manchester Metropolitan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to integrate a gaze training intervention (i.e., quiet eye training; QET) that has been shown to improve the throwing and catching skill of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), within an approach (i.e., group therapy) that might alleviate the psychosocial influence of these motor skill deficits.

Detailed description

Children with DCD will be randomly split into either QET group or a technical training (TT). The TT group will be given movement-related instructions via video, relating to the throw and catch phases, while the QET group will also be taught to fixate a target location on the wall prior to the throw (QE1) and to track the ball prior to the catch (QE2). Each group will take part in a 4- week, group therapy intervention and measurements of QE duration obtained from a mobile eye tracking system and catching performance are to be taken before and after training, and at a 6-week delayed retention test. Parental feedback on psychosocial and motor skill outcomes will also be collected at delayed retention.

Conditions

• Developmental Coordination Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Technical Training	Children will watch an instructional video focused on movement related instructions regarding the throwing and catching task.
BEHAVIORAL	Quiet Eye Training	Children will watch the same video as the TT group but will also receive instructions designed to optimise their quiet eye durations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-02-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2016-09-19
• Last updated: 2016-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom