The Effect of Telerehabilitation on the Children With Cerebral Palsy and Their Caregivers

Summary

Cerebral palsy develops due to brain damage before, during and after birth. Motor control is impaired in individuals with cerebral palsy. Disturbances occur in muscle tone, mobility and body posture. There is no definitive treatment for cerebral palsy, but improvement in functions can be achieved with physiotherapy.

Because of the covid-19 pandemic precautions, activity level has been decreasing in children with cerebral palsy, as in adults.

Children experience physical, social and psychological problems caused by physical inactivity.

Exercises and games that can be done comfortably in the house will positively affect the physical development of children and enable them to spend productive time by getting away from excessive technology, internet and smart phone usage, excessive screen time.

The aim of this project; To ensure that children with cerebral palsy who need intense exercise and activity and who experience physical inactivity due to COVID-19 can exercise with telerehabilitation and to determine the effect of telerehabilitation on the quality of life, anxiety and depression levels of children with cerebral palsy and their caregivers.

It will be compared to a control group that did not accept telerehabilitation but was recommended to exercise at home.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

OTHER

Telerehabilitation

The exercise program will begin with a warm-up, followed by a stretching exercise and an alphabetical exercise game called what's your name, and will end with a cool-down. The exercises will be performed 2 times a week for a total of 12 weeks, and each program will last for roughly 30 minutes. it will last. In what is your name game, 10 5-letter words containing the whole alphabet were produced and children will work out the exercises corresponding to each letter with a word they choose for each day.

OTHER

Control

The same exercise program will be prepared and given to the patients who are offered and not accepted telerehabilitation, and they will be asked to do their own exercises at home. This group will also be included in the study as a control group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Marmara University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Evrim Karadag-Saygi, Prof. Dr. · Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul

• Ayca Evkaya Acar, Lecturer · Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University

• Nurahsen Demir, Res. Asst. · Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

6 Years

Max Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-02-16

Primary Completion

2021-06-12

Completion

2021-06-26

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations