NCT04656990

SKIPping With PAX: An Integrated Gross Motor and Social-Emotional Skill Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 277 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to test the effects of an integrated intervention on the gross motor and social-emotional development of rural preschool boys and girls. A secondary purpose was to examine intervention effects on physical activity and sedentary behavior. An exploratory aim was to examine the role of executive functioning skills on intervention outcomes. This study featured a repeated measures (baseline, six-month posttest, three month retention \[nine-month follow-up\]), control group, experimental design. Classrooms were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control groups. Experimental participants received intervention while control participants received business as usual curricula.

Conditions

• Gross Motor Development Delay
• Social Skills
• Social Behavior
• Sedentary Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Integrated Intervention	Gross motor and social-emotional integrated intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-10-31
• Completion: 2023-02-18
• First posted: 2020-12-07
• Last updated: 2025-04-20
• Results posted: 2025-04-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States