NCT04009031

Video Game for Home-based Rehabilitation for Children With Hemiplegia

Evaluation of a Novel Video Game for Home-based Rehabilitation for Children With Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy.

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the feasibility of a low-cost, movement tracking video game (Bootle Blast) to 1) sustain engagement in children with cerebral palsy (CP) during a 12-week intervention; and 2) generate changes in upper limb functional motor outcomes following the intervention.

Detailed description

Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) can benefit from home-based practice of therapy exercises. However, sustaining engagement in home-based therapy is challenging. Bootle Blast is a low-cost video game that uses the Microsoft Kinect sensor to track upper limb movements and interactions with real-life objects (e.g. musical instruments, building blocks). To play Bootle Blast, the child needs to use the hemiplegic arm/hand to play unilateral game activities, and highly involve it in bilateral activities. This study will answer our research questions: 1) to what extent can children achieve a weekly play-time goal (PTG) over a 12-week intervention (adherence) when the PTG is family identified? 2) to what extent can the use of Bootle Blast lead to improvements in UL motor function? and 3) what are the participant's experiences of using BB for home rehabilitation? As measures of feasibility we hypothesize that 1a) 75% of children will achieve their weekly play time goal and complete the 12-week intervention and 2) 75% children who achieve their weekly play time goal will improve in one or more UL motor outcome measures.

Conditions

• Child
• Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Bootle Blast	During the baseline assessment, an occupational therapist will calibrate the video game to the child's therapy needs and functional abilities. Within a week of the first assessment, the research team will set up the video game in the participant's home where it will remain for 12 weeks. Training on how to play the game and a user manual will be provided. The researcher will work with each family to establish a play objective (minutes/day and days/week) that considers the family's schedule. Five-minute telephone check-in calls will be done weekly.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-09
• Primary completion: 2020-03-15
• Completion: 2020-03-15
• First posted: 2019-07-05
• Last updated: 2023-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada