Clinical trial NCT06504563: Relationship Between Kinesthetic Perception, Motor Competence, Physical Fitness and Emotional Intelligence in Children
Official title: Relationship Between Kinesthetic Perception, Motor Competence, Physical Fitness and Emotional Intelligence in Obese School Children
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Children
Keywords: Kinesthetic perception,
motor competence
Lead sponsor: Riphah International University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-07-16
Enrollment: 97
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 15
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Obese children are recruited, male and female. The age limit is from 10 years to 15 years

Brief summary: The benefits of an active lifestyle and physical fitness extend to physical, mental, and social aspects of well-being, including improved cardiopulmonary health, concentration, and self-confidence. The World Health Organization recommends 60 minutes of daily activity to combat childhood obesity, which is influenced by factors like lack of exercise, poor diet, and sedentary behaviors. Obesity negatively impacts children's kinesthetic perception, motor skills, and emotional resilience, crucial for their nervous system development. This study aims to explore the relationship between these factors in obese school-age children.

Detailed description: The data will be collected by both subjective and objective assessments. The data collection will be organized at the premises of the participating schools during the time allocated for physical education and breaks. Consent will be taken from each participant before any assessment. The data will be collected included anthroprometric and demographics included sex, age, class/grade level, height, weight, BMI (calculated as the weight divided by the square of height). Measurement tools such as, PMSC will be used to assess motor competence and physical fitness in young children. It is a performance based tool, PMSC will assess children's fundamental locomotion skills such as catching, running, kicking, jumping forward, skipping and hitting ball with one hand. Each question will be scored as 'good' or 'not as good'. Kinesthetic perception will be assessed by Nelson hand reaction time. It is a performance based activity. It will test the subject's kinesthetic perception visually, auditory senses and tactile senses. Emotional Intelligence will be assessed using PANAS tool.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age of the participants 10 to 15 years
* Male and female will be included.
* Obese Class 1, class 2, class 3

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children who have high risk level and poor safety as it pertains to physical activity.
* Children with disabilities that are limited in their ability to understand the testing instructions or the performance of the activities (e.g., cognitive impairments, gross motor impairments etc.). •. Children with any kind of disability and congenital deformity

Primary outcomes:
measure: Kinesthetic Perception
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Physical fitness
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lahore
country: Pakistan
facility: Riphah International University
Study officials:
affiliation: Riphah International University
name: Rabia Bakhtiar, MS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Jebeile H, Kelly AS, O'Malley G, Baur LA. Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology, causes, assessment, and management. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2022 May;10(5):351-365. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(22)00047-X. Epub 2022 Mar 3.