Clinical trial NCT02904980: The Effects of a Group-based Gaze Training Intervention for Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder
Official title: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Group-based, Gaze Training Intervention for Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Developmental Coordination Disorder
Keywords: Quiet eye training
Visual Attention
Lead sponsor: Manchester Metropolitan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Liverpool Hope University
name: University of Exeter
name: University of Calgary
name: The Waterloo Foundation
First posted: 2016-09-19
Enrollment: 23
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 7
Maximum age (years): 11
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The aim of this study was to integrate a gaze training intervention (i.e., quiet eye training; QET) that has been shown to improve the throwing and catching skill of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), within an approach (i.e., group therapy) that might alleviate the psychosocial influence of these motor skill deficits.

Detailed description: Children with DCD will be randomly split into either QET group or a technical training (TT). The TT group will be given movement-related instructions via video, relating to the throw and catch phases, while the QET group will also be taught to fixate a target location on the wall prior to the throw (QE1) and to track the ball prior to the catch (QE2). Each group will take part in a 4- week, group therapy intervention and measurements of QE duration obtained from a mobile eye tracking system and catching performance are to be taken before and after training, and at a 6-week delayed retention test. Parental feedback on psychosocial and motor skill outcomes will also be collected at delayed retention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Prior diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder or suspected to have DCD
* Scores below the 5th percentile on the MABC-2 (Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2)
* Be of normal intelligence (assessed through parent/teacher feedback)
* No neurological disorder
* Normal of corrected-to-normal vision

Exclusion Criteria:

* Score over 5th Percentile on the MABC-2
* Suffers from a neurological disorder
* Below average intelligence
* Any visual impairment

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Catching Success
timeFrame: From Baseline to after a 4 week training period, and after 6-week delayed retention test
measure: Changes in the qualitative catching performance scale score
timeFrame: From Baseline to after a 4 week training period, and after 6-week delayed retention test
measure: Changes in Quiet Eye durations
timeFrame: From Baseline to after a 4 week training period, and after 6-week delayed retention test
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Changes 3D Movement Kinematics
timeFrame: From Baseline to after a 4 week training period, and after 6-week delayed retention test
measure: Changes in Muscular Activity (EMG)
timeFrame: From Baseline to after a 4 week training period, and after 6-week delayed retention test
measure: Parental Perceptions of Motor Skill Improvements
timeFrame: End of the study (approximately 12 weeks after baseline testing)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Crewe
country: United Kingdom
facility: Manchester Metropolitan University
state: Cheshire
Study officials:
affiliation: Liverpool Hope University
name: Omid Alizadehkhaiyat, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Miles CA, Wood G, Vine SJ, Vickers JN, Wilson MR. Quiet eye training facilitates visuomotor coordination in children with developmental coordination disorder. Res Dev Disabil. 2015 May;40:31-41. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.01.005. Epub 2015 Feb 25.
citation: Wood G, Miles CA, Coyles G, Alizadehkhaiyat O, Vine SJ, Vickers JN, Wilson MR. A randomized controlled trial of a group-based gaze training intervention for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. PLoS One. 2017 Feb 10;12(2):e0171782. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171782. eCollection 2017.