Clinical trial NCT06137625: Rhythm Effect on Dance Learning in Children with and Without Cerebral Palsy.
Official title: Rhythm Effect on Dance Learning and Associated Functions in Typical Development Children and Children with Cerebral Palsy.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-11-18
Enrollment: 68
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: Cerebral Palsy (CP) leads to motor impairments and impacts activities of daily living and academic and social achievement (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Children with CP present impaired procedural learning abilities that is the ability to acquire cognitive-motor skills with practice (Gagliardi et al., 2011; Gofer-Levi et al., 2013). However, some rehabilitative rhythmic interventions, such as adaptive dance training, appear to improve motor, cognitive, psycho-emotional, and social functions in these children (Cherriere, Martel, et al., 2020; Cherriere, Robert, et al., 2020). Rhythm seems to be an important factor in these benefits, probably because regular rhythm improves motor control and learning (Thaut, 2015; Lagarrigue et al., 2021; Ghai et al., 2022). To validate this hypothesis, the investigators propose to evaluate the effects the presence of a regular rhythm on learning of a danse choreography in typically developing children and children with CP.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

For all the participants:

* Aged from 8 to 16 include.
* Free, informed, written, and signed consent of the holders of parental authority
* Free and informed consent of the minor
* Affiliation with or benefiting from a social security scheme.
* Ability to understand the instructions (investigator's assessment)

For the participant with CP:

* CP diagnosis
* Gross Motor Function Classification System level between I to IV.
* Manual Ability Classification System level between I to IV.

For the participant with typical development:

* No CP diagnosis
* No neurological trouble nor functional disfunction including developmental coordination disorder.

Exclusion Criteria:

* -Autism spectrum disorder diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
* Hearing deficiency diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015) or uncorrected hearing deficiency that doesn't allows the participant to hear a music with a sound level between 45 and 70 decibels.
* Visual deficiency diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
* Intellectual developmental disorder diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
* Behavioural disorders diagnosed according to the DSM-5 (APA, 2015)
* Diagnosed epilepsia
* Pregnancy (check in young pubescent and sexually active women) or breastfeeding.
* Children already include in ongoing interventional study.
* Children with both parent who benefit of legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Retention score of the choreography
timeFrame: Day 0
Secondary outcomes:
measure: the effect of regular rhythm on Perceptivo-Motor Procedural Learning (PMPL)
timeFrame: Day 0
measure: the effect of regular rhythm on sensorimotor function
timeFrame: Day 0
measure: the effect of regular rhythm on cognitive function
timeFrame: Day 0
measure: the effect of regular rhythm on psychoaffective function
timeFrame: Day 0
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toulouse
country: France
facility: Toulouse Hospital
Study officials:
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