Clinical trial NCT04524923: Touch Screen Usage Time In Relation To Visual Motor Integration and Quality of Life In Preschoolers
Official title: Touch Screen Usage Time In Relation To Visual Motor Integration and Quality of Life In Preschoolers: A Cross Sectional Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Child Development
Keywords: Cognitive development
Digital devices
Quality of Life Inventory
Visual motor integration
touch screen usage
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-08-24
Enrollment: 97
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 3
Maximum age (years): 5
Standard ages: CHILD
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: This study will be delimited to typically developing preschool children, from both genders, with age ranging from three to five years.

Brief summary: Recent literatures are associating digital technology extensive and addictive use with physical, psychosocial and cognitive inverse consequences. This research focuses more on number of touch screen devices; age started using devices and usage time in relation to cognitive function in preschoolers.

Detailed description: A hundred typically developing preschool children of both genders with age ranges from three to five years will be included in this study. Visual motor integration, quality of life and cognitive function were assessed by the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ cognitive functioning scale respectively

Sample size To avoid type II error, sample size calculation was based on data from a pilot study on correlation between touch screen usage time and visual motor integration. Using G\*POWER statistica software (version 3.1.9.2; Franz Faul, Universitat Kiel, Germany) \[Correlational study, α=0.05, β=0.2, and medium effect size = 0.3\] revealed that the appropriate sample size for this study was N=84 Therefore, one-hundred children were recruited for possible dropouts during assessment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

Children were enrolled in this study according to the following criteria:

* Age ranges from three to five years.
* Both genders were included.

Exclusion criteria:

Children were excluded from the study if they had any of the following criteria:

* Diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) or developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD).
* Preterm children; children with major physical disabilities, genetic disorders; prenatal exposure to alcohol; children with a history of head trauma and infections.
* Diagnosed with psychiatric conditions such as autism and depression.
* Diagnosed with significant behavioral disorders
* Diagnosed with fine motor problems.
* Significant auditory or visual deficits.

Primary outcomes:
measure: visual motor integration
timeFrame: 1 September 2020 to 31 March 2021
measure: Physical and Psychosocial Health
timeFrame: 1 September 2020 to 31 March 2021
measure: cognitive function
timeFrame: 1 September 2020 to 31 March 2021
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Giza
country: Egypt
facility: faculty of physical therapy, Cairo university
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University
name: Amira M El-tohamy, Phd
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Cairo University
name: Amira M Mahmoud
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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