Effects of Active Video Gaming on Pre-handwriting Skills of Children With Down Syndrome.

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Down's syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by trisomy 21. Down's syndrome is most common genetic mental disability that affects children physically, mentally and functionally. It occurs due to an extra copy of chromosome 21. It involves a slightly flattened facial profile, low muscle tone upward-slanted eyes, and ligamentous laxity. Central hypotonia, mental retardation and short stature are very common features of children with down's syndrome. Children with down's syndrome are characterized by awkward movements, gait, increased flexibility of joints, timing of mastering of basic skills and , under-development of fine motor skills. Active video gaming used different games that involve interactive session that can enhance cortical recognition, motor learning and functional profile of children with DS. The objective of this study is to determine the effects of active video gaming on pre-hand writing skills of children with down's syndrome. This will be a RCT(Randomized Controlled Trial).The sample size was 18 and the study design was a case-control trial. The inclusion criteria are children with down syndrome age 6 to 12 years both male and female patients are randomly selected and children with poor pre-hand writing skills. And the exclusion criteria for this study is children with any other neurological condition like (epilepsy, instability of atlantoaxial joints, cardiac anomalies,) vision, and hearing loss. Two groups were randomly assigned and equally divided patients into each group. Group A received pre-handwriting skills, like tracing alphabets and numbers, scribbling, coloring, painting, and group B received active video gaming and prehandwriting skills. For measuring each group developmental coordination disorder questionnaire tool is used. The session will be taken 30 mins thrice a week for (8consecutive weeks). Data collected from different centers, Raising sun institute of special education. Autism resource center Lahore. SPSS for Windows software, version 25 will be used to analyze the data using statistical Significance p=0.05. The Shapiro-Wilk test will be used to check the normality of data. Keywords: Active video gaming, Down syndrome, Computer game, Fine motor skills, Pre-hand writing skills, Virtual reality gaming.

Detailed Description
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To determine the effects of active video gaming on pre-hand writing skills of children with down syndrome.

Official Title
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Effects of Active Video Gaming on Pre-handwriting Skills of Children With Down Syndrome.

Conditions
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Down Syndrome

Intervention / Treatment
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* Device: wii sports game
* Other: pre-hand writing skills


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Age 5 to 14 years. Both male and female patient diagnosed with down syndrome. Able to understand and follow verbal command. Down syndrome children with pre-hand writing skills are not good. Difficulty in fine motor skills. Exclusion Criteria: Patients will have any neurological sign (epilepsy, instability of the atlantoaxial joint, cardiac anomalies, vision and hearing loss, speech loss. Musculoskeletal and mobility disorder.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 5 Years
Maximum Age: 14 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: Effects of active video gaming on pre-handwriting skills of children with down's syndrome.
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Other: controlled group<br>Nine children will be randomly allocated to control group who receive only pre-hand writing skills. | Other: pre-hand writing skills<br>* pre-hand writing skills<br>|
| Experimental: Experimental group<br>Nine children will be randomly allocated to experimental group who receive active video gaming along with pre-hand writing skills. | Device: wii sports game<br>* wii sports is a collection five sports game stimulation,which have been designed to demonstrate the motion sensing capabilities of wii remote<br>* Other names: video gaming;Other: pre-hand writing skills<br>* pre-hand writing skills<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| pre handwriting skills syndrome. | bilateral hand use will determine by box and ball test children with down syndrome. | 6 months |