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The Effect of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Cognitive Skills, Academic Performance And Quality of Life in Refugee Children

NCT05093738 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 34

Last updated 2021-10-26

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Summary

Children are the most vulnerable group to be affected by war. The long-term effects of exposure to conflict on children's mental, physical and cognitive development have been documented in the context of war and refugee camps. It has been shown that children who experience war have difficulties in cognitive skills such as attention, learning new information, memory and executive functions. Cognitive skills can ensure a child's school readiness and successful participation in school. Therefore, assessment of children's cognitive performance components can provide a more fundamental understanding of their skills and barriers in school performance. Although there are studies to develop occupational therapy programs in schools for refugee children in the world. No intervention studies specifically aimed at cognitive rehabilitation were found. Therefore, it was aimed to perform cognitive rehabilitation for refugee children and to examine the effects of this on cognitive skills, academic performance and quality of life. The hypotheses on which there is no effect of school-based cognitive rehabilitation approach on cognitive skills, academic performance and quality of life in refugees.

The population of the study will be 34 children (17 studies, 17 controls) between the ages of 12 and 16 who scored 12 points or higher on the Post-Traumatic Stress Scale for Children in Istanbul Secondary School and scored below 21 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale. Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment Scale to assess students' cognitive status; Reading Speed Test and Minnesota Writing Test to assess their academic performance; Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory will be used to assess their quality of life. Refugee children in the study (cognitive rehabilitation intervention) and control groups will be evaluated primarily with the help of these assessment scales, and the individuals in the study group will be given 2 sessions of intervention per week for 10 weeks, with an average of 1 hour per session. At the end of 10 weeks, the participants will be re-evaluated with the help of the same scales and the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation will be examined.

Conditions

  • Cognitive Impairment, Variable

Interventions

OTHER

Cognitive Rehabilitation

In the content of the person-centered intervention program, attention, memory, orientation, praxis (motor planning) training; metacognition (metacognition) training; visual perception; There will be cognitive training for executive functions. The intervention will consist of play activities (games, computer-assisted games) for cognitive skills; The games will be applied in a way that suits the child from simple to complex. Visual perception applications (designing blocks, recognizing and sorting the shapes in the picture, matching opposite shapes etc.); attention practices, memory practices, strategy development, space-time orientation, motor planning, games and metacognitive strategies aimed at developing skills such as planning, organization, working memory, impulse control, time management and awareness, abstract thinking, cognitive flexibility will form our intervention program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hacettepe University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-10-25
Primary Completion
2022-01-07
Completion
2022-01-20

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