NCT04185324

Efficacy of an Intervention to Teach Zippering: A Two-Group Control Study

Effectiveness of Visual Cues and Verbal Storytelling in Teaching Preschool Children Zippering

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Salus University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 42 Months – 60 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Preschoolers are assigned to a control group or a comparison group to examine the efficacy of a new intervention to teach the skill of engaging and pulling up a zipper.

Detailed description

Purpose: This pilot study compares the efficacy of a standard teaching zippering vest presented with general verbal prompts to a modified teaching zippering vest presented with a related story and vocabulary in the acquisition of zippering skills among typically developing preschoolers. Institutional Review Board approval and parent consent was obtained. Design: An experimental two group pre-post test design was used. Setting: Research occurred in a local preschool. Participants: Participants were recruited from fifty 3.6-to 4.11-year-old preschoolers. Intervention: Eligible children received 3 zippering practice sessions with either a standard zippering vest (control group) or a modified vest with added visual and language cues (comparison group). The treatment protocol for both cohorts of participants was administered over a three-week time period to minimize the impact of normal development.

Conditions

• Typical Preschoolers Who Can Not Zipper

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standard zippering vest	Standard zippering vest used to teach zippering
BEHAVIORAL	Modified zippering vest	Modified zippering vest used to teach zippering, along with related story

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-30
• Completion: 2020-01-30
• First posted: 2019-12-04
• Last updated: 2020-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States