NCT04840498

UAB AIM Virtual Magic Camp

UAB Arts in Medicine's Evaluation of a Virtual Magic Camp

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hon K. Yuen, PhD · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The magic camp for children with disabilities at UAB has been conducted yearly since 2018. This year, because of the Covid-19, the magic camp will be conducted online. The virtual magic camp will start in the beginning of June . It will run for 4 weeks. After one cohort, there will be another cohort starts in the beginning of July . Each cohort will have about 30 children with disabilities. Two occupational therapy graduate students will teach each child via Zoom to learn magic hand trick 3 times a week, one hour each. No studies evaluate the psychological benefits of learning magic tricks via online in children with disabilities. Therefore, this study is to evaluate the psychological being of the children participants after completing a virtual magic camp.

Conditions

• Autism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Autism Research	Measuring aspects such as self esteem, social skills, and social anxieties.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-07
• Primary completion: 2021-08-31
• Completion: 2021-08-31
• First posted: 2021-04-12
• Last updated: 2022-08-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States