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Effects of Power Mobility on Young Children With Severe Motor Impairments

NCT01028833 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 41

Last updated 2016-01-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose this study is to determine the effects of power mobility on the development and function of young children of young children whose severe physical disabilities limit their exploratory behaviors and may unnecessarily restrict their cognitive, communication, and social-emotional development.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Power mobility

Project staff will use structured power mobility training program to teach the children to use the power mobility devices. Project staff will schedule 1-hour sessions with each family 3 times per week for the first month of the project and will decrease in the following manner as the child becomes proficient and develops basic wheelchair maneuvering skills: two one-hour session per week for 4 weeks; one one-hour session per week for 4 weeks; two one-hour sessions per month for 4 weeks; one one-hour session per month for the remainder of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oklahoma

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria A. Jones, PT, PhD · University of Oklahoma

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Months
Max Age
30 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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