NCT04167839

Effects of Sensory Diets on Children's Sensory Processing Skills, Psychosocial Skills, and Classroom Engagement

Effects of Sensory Diets on a Child's Sensory Processing Skills, Psychosocial Skills, and Classroom Engagement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pingale, Vidya, OTR · Individual
• Sex: Male
• Age: 4 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigated the effects of a sensory diet intervention program on five children with a sensory processing disorder. The effect was investigated on children's sensory processing skills, psychosocial skills, and classroom engagement.

Detailed description

Sensory diets are one of the interventions occupational therapists use in school-based settings to manage manifestations of sensory processing disorder. However, very few studies have investigated the effectiveness of sensory diets, and the results of these studies were mixed. Past studies also had methodological limitations. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of sensory diets on children's sensory processing skills, psychosocial skills, and engagement in classroom activities. This study used a single-subject ABCA design. Five children between the ages of five and eleven years participated in the study. The study consisted of an initial baseline phase A1, the control intervention phase B, sensory diets intervention phase C, and the second baseline phase A2. Each phase lasted for seven days. The PI videotaped each participant for fifteen minutes each school day during all phases to collect the data. The participants were videotaped during classroom group activities. Visual analysis of the data showed that sensory diets had a positive effect on participants' sensory processing, psychosocial skills, and classroom engagement.

Conditions

• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Special Education
• Autism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Sensory diet	Sensory diets are one of the interventions occupational therapists use in school-based settings to manage manifestations of sensory processing disorder. Sensory diets are composed of exercises and multisensory activities that are tailored for children and provide them sensorimotor experiences to facilitate their participation in daily activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-06
• Primary completion: 2018-02-15
• Completion: 2018-02-15
• First posted: 2019-11-19
• Last updated: 2019-11-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States