Clinical trial NCT06198205: Effects of Fundamental Motor Skills Program on Motor and Cognitive Abilities
Official title: Effects of Fundamental Motor Skills Program on Motor and Cognitive Abilities in School Going Children
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Child Development
Keywords: Cognition.
Fundamental motor skills
School going children
Lead sponsor: Riphah International University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-01-10
Enrollment: 48
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 6
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: it is a randomized control trial, used to compare Effects of Fundamental Motor Skills Program on Motor and Cognitive Abilities in school going children. Subjects meeting the predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria will be divided into two groups using simple random sampling technique.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: School age child development is a range from 6 to 12 years of age. During this time period observable differences in height, weight, and build of children may be prominent. The language skills of children continue to grow and many behavior changes occur as they try to find their place among their peers. School-age children gain between four and seven pounds each year., Increases in height will vary, and a three-to-six height difference in age groups is typical. Growth spurts are common in school-age children, as are periods of slow growth. Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) are a specific set of gross motor skills that involve different body parts. These skills are the building blocks for more complex skills that children will learn throughout their lives. They help children take part in games, sports and recreational activities. While the Motor cognition takes into account the preparation and production of actions, as well as the processes involved in recognizing, predicting, mimicking, and understanding the behavior of other people It will be a randomized controlled trial. This study will include 48 school going children who meet the inclusion criteria will be recruited from Qazi Grammer School, The Cardour School. Two groups will be formed and 24 students will be allocated in each group. Before applying the techniques pre and post reading will be taken.Tools used during our study will be Parent proxy report format and Six minutes Walk test and portage guide to early education. In Group A which will be experimental group Experimental Group students will participate in fundamental motor skills(FMS) program that will include 12 basic motor skills(running,hopping,galloping,leaping,jumping,sliding,strinking,dribbling,catching overhand throwing and underhand rolling) will be applied and Group B which will be control group regular afterschool programs which include unstructured child's free play including sliding, hide and seek, sea-saw, and runing, along with reading, drawing will be used. These activities will continue for 3 sessions per week for the period of 8 weeks. Data will be analyzed by using SPSS for windows version 25.

Detailed description: This study will be a randomized controlled trial, used to compare the effects of Effects of Fundamental Motor Skills Program on Motor and Cognitive Abilities in school going children.

Subjects meeting the predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria will be divided into two groups using simple random sampling technique. Assessment will be done by using The Portage Guide to Early Education, Six minutes Walk test and PEDsQL Parent proxy report format. Subjects in group A will be participated in fundamental motor skills(FMS) program and subjects in group B will be participated in regular after school programs unstructured child's free play.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* • Age: school going children of age between 5 to 6 years.

  * Students who are present at school in their afterschool programs between 12 to 2pm.
  * Gender: both boys and girls.
  * Children who are physically active
  * Children who are able to understand command
  * BMI= Normal to Obese(16.5 - \>28.0).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students with any leg length discrepancy .
* With any surgical intervention from last 6 months
* Any history of fracture.
* Children with flat foot/club foot.
* Children with genu varum/valgum

Primary outcomes:
measure: The Portage Guide to Early Education
timeFrame: duration of 8 weeks with 3 sessions per week(total 24 sessions)
measure: Six minutes Walk test
timeFrame: duration of 8 weeks with 3 sessions per week(total 24 sessions)
measure: PEDsQL Parent proxy report format
timeFrame: duration of 8 weeks with 3 sessions per week(total 24 sessions)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lahore
country: Pakistan
facility: Riphah International University
state: Punjab
Study officials:
affiliation: Riphah International University
name: Muhammad Asif Javed, MS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Garcia-Hermoso A, Alonso-Martinez AM, Ramirez-Velez R, Perez-Sousa MA, Ramirez-Campillo R, Izquierdo M. Association of Physical Education With Improvement of Health-Related Physical Fitness Outcomes and Fundamental Motor Skills Among Youths: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatr. 2020 Jun 1;174(6):e200223. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0223. Epub 2020 Jun 1.