NCT05709080

Effectiveness of Family-Professional Collaboration on Functional Goals Achievement of Children With Cerebral Palsy and Caregivers' Quality of Life and Burden

Effectiveness of Family-Professional Collaboration on Functional Goals Achievement of Children With Cerebral Palsy and Caregivers' Quality of Life and Burden: A Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: King Saud University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of implanting the family-professional collaboration practice model on the functional goals achievement of children with CP and their caregivers' quality of life and burden. The children will be treated by physical therapists who will be assigned to two groups (control and experimental).

Detailed description

A randomized, single-blinded control study involved 28 physical therapists and 44 pairs of children with CP aged 2-12 years old and their caregivers will be assigned randomly into experimental and control groups. Physical therapists in the experimental group will receive two instructional sessions (3 hours each) to implement collaboration during the therapy sessions and physical therapists in the control group will receive no instructions. Children will receive 45- 60 minutes therapy sessions (5 sessions/week) for six weeks. Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) to measure the children's goals achievement change rate, the Arabic version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief (WHOQOL- Brief) to examine the caregivers' quality of life, and the Zarit Burden Interview Arabic Abridged version (ZBI-A) to evaluate the caregivers' burden will be used.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Collaborative Intervention Process
• Functional Goals Achievement

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	family-professional collaboration practice model	Online instructional sessions will be conducted in two sessions for six hours (3 hours per session) for the physical therapists in the experimental group. The instructional session focus on explaining the specific strategies and process to implement the Family-professional Collaboration (four step process) Model as ( Step 1: Mutually agreed-upon goals, Step 2: Shared planning, Step 3: Shared implementation and Step 4: Shared evaluation of child and family outcomes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-01
• Primary completion: 2021-11-30
• Completion: 2021-11-30
• First posted: 2023-02-01
• Last updated: 2023-02-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Saudi Arabia