Clinical trial NCT03125447: Mobility and Attention Capacity in Former Premature Children
Official title: Posture and Mobility Influence on Attention Capacity in Former Premature Children at 6 Years of Age.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Attention Concentration Difficulty
Mobility Limitation
Keywords: Prematurely born children
Attention function
Posture
Mobility
Lead sponsor: Central Hospital, Nancy, France
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-04-24
Enrollment: 51
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 8
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Intervention model description: Attention capacity will be compared in three situations of posture/mobility in a group of prematurely born children, and compared to the same situations in a group of term born children
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Attention functions have a major impact on children's social and school behavior. They are an important issue for prematurely born children often seen as having learning difficulties and being restless, when it could be an adaptative answer to attention disorders. The aim of this study is to evaluate attention capacity in former premature children aged 6-7 years old with regards to different postures or mobility, for the attention functions of orienting, alerting and executive control. The Attention Network Test using reaction time and accuracy to visual stimuli will be used to evaluate attention functions in each posture and mobility.

Detailed description: Attention functions have a major impact on children's social, school and emotional adjustment. They are one of the most common issues for prematurely born children with implications in academic and social-behavioral functioning. Prematurely born infants are often seen as having excessive mobility or being restless when it could be an adaptative answer to attention disorders leading to learning difficulties. Respecting spontaneous mobility could improve attention performance in vulnerable children. The aim of the study is to evaluate global attention performance of former premature children at the preschool age of 6 to 7 years. This evaluation will be done in three usual postures or mobility, and for the 3 attentional functions of orienting, alerting or executive control. They will be compared within the prematurely born children group and to term born controls of the same age. The Attention Network Test adapted to children by Rueda et al (Neuropsychologia 2004) using reaction time and accuracy to visual stimuli will be used to evaluate attention functions. Presentation of stimuli through virtual video glasses and collection of answers will be done thanks to a specific software.

Eligibility criteria: Main Inclusion Criteria:

* Children born before 35 weeks gestation and routinely followed for their prematurity in the follow-up clinic of the Maternite Regionale Universitaire

Healthy term born children recruited after information leaflet displayed in the University but not the Hospital

Main Exclusion Criteria:

* Children with a visual or motor disability preventing the realization of the test

Primary outcomes:
measure: Reaction time to respond to visual stimuli appearance
timeFrame: 5 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Accuracy to the response to visual stimuli direction
timeFrame: 5 minutes
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nancy
country: France
facility: Maternity Hospital CHRU
Study officials:
References:
citation: Rosenbaum J, Ceyte H, Hamon I, Deforge H, Hascoet AMJ, Caudron S, Hascoet JM. Influence of body mobility on attention networks in school-aged prematurely born children: A controlled trial. Front Pediatr. 2022 Sep 8;10:928541. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.928541. eCollection 2022.
citation: Ceyte H, Rosenbaum J, Hamon I, Wirth M, Caudron S, Hascoet JM. Mobility may impact attention abilities in healthy term or prematurely born children at 7-years of age: protocol for an intervention controlled trial. BMC Pediatr. 2018 Aug 6;18(1):264. doi: 10.1186/s12887-018-1229-1.