Clinical trial NCT04525742: COVID-19 Pandemic and Parents of Disabled Children
Official title: COVID-19 Pandemic From the Perspective of Parents of Disabled Children
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: COVID-19
Disabilities Multiple
Cerebral Palsy
Muscular Dystrophies
Keywords: cerebral palsy
COVID-19
pandemic
disability
Lead sponsor: Gaziosmanpasa Research and Education Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2020-08-25
Enrollment: 309
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: One study group will be researched- only disabled children's parents, in one arm -way
Primary purpose: SCREENING

Brief summary: Pandemic period could affect the disabled children's rehabilitation and follow-up negatively because of preventive measures and this could create adverse results on their parents.

In this research, it is aimed to determine the positive and negative effects of pandemic on parents and disabled children and to provide an insight for future solutions.

Detailed description: To determine the effect of COVID-19 pandemic and the possible difficulties experienced by the parents of disabled children, a questionnaire was prepared. It takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete the survey. Questionnaire is loaded to qualtrics program and sent to the families by e-mail or social media accounts.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Having disabled child/children
* Having ability and facility to use internet
* Having ability to read and write
* Having enough cognitive capacity to answer the questionnaire
* To accept to participate the research

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not having disabled child/children
* Not having ability and facility to use internet
* Not having ability to read and write
* Not having enough cognitive capacity to answer the questionnaire
* Not to accept to participate the research

Primary outcomes:
measure: A questionnaire that we created will be used to determine the difficulties experienced by disabled children's parents during Covid 19 pandemic related to their medical follow-up
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The Fear of COVID-19 Scale
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: İstanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Health Science University Gaziosmanpasa Training and Research Hospital
state: Gaziosmanpasa
Study officials:
affiliation: İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine
name: Resa Aydin, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Marmara University Faculty of Medicine
name: Evrim Karadağ Saygı, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Koc University Faculty of Medicine
name: Özden Özyemisçi Taşkıran, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine
name: Nalan Çapan, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Health Science University
name: Ebru Yilmaz Yalçınkaya, Professor
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Ahorsu DK, Lin CY, Imani V, Saffari M, Griffiths MD, Pakpour AH. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2022;20(3):1537-1545. doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8. Epub 2020 Mar 27.