NCT03530982

Intensive Goal Training for Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy

Intensive Training of Functional Priorities Reported by Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Minas Gerais · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) present important limitations for the performance of daily living activities. The aims of the study is to evaluate the feasibility and effects of an intensive goal training protocol for adolescents with CP. He hypothesize that adolescents submitted to the studied protocol will present improvements in performance and satisfaction of prioritized functional goals.

Detailed description

We will conduct a feasibility study to assess the implementation and the possible effects of an intensive individualized goal training with adolescents with CP. Adolescents will select up to 5 functional goals to be trained during a 2 weeks, 3 hour-daily training, totalling 30 hours across 2 weeks. Moreover, they will be asked to daily practice these activities at home along the intervention period.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intensive goal training	Intensive goal training : 30 hours during 2 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-02
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2018-05-21
• Last updated: 2019-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil