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Cognitive and Postural Activities of Prematurely Born Children

NCT04275895 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 48

Last updated 2024-08-19

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Summary

Prematurely born children (PC) have academic difficulties related to poorer attention capabilities. Additionally, they often show excessive mobility, quoted as agitation. Some consider it could be related to poorer postural control and impaired perception of gravity vertical. But, this excessive mobility could also be an unconscious way for PC to improve their attention performance. The aim of this study is to evaluate the interdependence between postural and cognitive activities in school age PC versus term born children (TC). First, the performance of PC and TC at the Attention Network Test for Children will be analyzed with the use of a mobile versus a classic school chair. Secondly, participants will have to position a stick vertically to measure their perception of vertical gravity. Finally, the spontaneous postural activity of PC and TC (evaluated by the center of pressure displacement) will be studied during the execution of three different attention tasks at different levels of difficulty. Success rate and reaction time will be analyzed for all attention tasks. Moreover, center of pressure displacement calculation will allow evaluation of infants' spontaneous mobility, the precision of their postural control and the attention allocated to their posture.

Conditions

  • Attention Deficit
  • Mobility
  • Postural Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Evaluation of different attention or/and postural activities

1. The children, equipped with a head-mounted display (HMD), will indicate as quickly as possible the direction of a fish that can be surrounded by congruent or not flankers (Inhibition) and/or preceded by signal (Alert) 2. The children, equipped with a HMD and a joystick, will vertically turn a randomly inclined stick 3. The children will stand on a force plate watching a cartoon, gazing a fixation cross or eyes closed 4. The children, equipped with an augmented reality headset, will perform 2 levels of difficulty of 3 attention tasks standing on a force plate: * They will click as quickly as possible when they see a frog among successively appearing animals (vigilance task) * They will give the name of an animal appearing at one of the windows displayed (visual search task) * They will count the number of yellow lions oriented to the right among several animals of different color and direction (inhibition task) 5. Growth trajectory will be retrieved from health booklet

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Central Hospital, Nancy, France

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-09-11
Primary Completion
2023-12-30
Completion
2024-08-15

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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