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Fitts Law in People With Cerebral Palsy

NCT03002285 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 96

Last updated 2016-12-23

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Summary

Introduction: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive disorder in the brain which makes the control and execution of movements difficult. One of the possible ways to analyze motor control in these individuals could be through analysis of movement speed and accuracy. Objective: To verify the speed-accuracy trade-off in individuals with CP. Method: 96 individuals were evaluated, 48 with CP and 48 with typical development (TD), matched by age and sex. The software used was the "Fitts' Reciprocal Aiming Task v.1.0 (Horizontal)", performed on a computer using an external optical mouse, with progressive indices of difficulty (IDs): ID2, ID4a and ID4b. Each index of difficulty was performed three times and the total time/touches captured.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cerebral Palsy group

Group with Cerebral Palsy that performed the Fitts law in a computer task

BEHAVIORAL

Control group

Group with typical development that performed the Fitts law in a computer task

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carlos BM Monteiro, Ph.D. · University of Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-08-31
Completion
2016-11-30

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