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Sensory Therapy for Chewing in Children

NCT07209800 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2025-10-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to learn if whole-body sensory integration therapy can improve chewing skills and mealtime behaviors in children with chewing difficulties. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does the therapy help children chew food better?

Does it make mealtimes shorter and more efficient?

Participants will:

Attend individual sensory integration therapy sessions for 60 minutes, three times a week for 4 weeks

Take part in exercises such as vibration, crawling through a tunnel, therapeutic brushing, joint and oral exercises, and sensory activities

Be observed for chewing performance and report meal duration and daily meal frequency before and after the therapy

Researchers will compare the results from before and after the therapy to see if chewing skills and feeding behaviors improve.

Conditions

  • Chewing Difficulties in Children
  • Feeding Behavior Challenges
  • Oral-motor Dysfunction
  • Impaired Chewing Function

Interventions

OTHER

Sensory integration therapy

Sensory integration therapy (SIT) was delivered individually in a play-based format, three times per week for four weeks, totaling 12 sessions. Each session lasted 60 minutes, and parents were instructed to reinforce the activities at home as homework. All interventions were administered one-on-one by an experienced therapist in a therapy room. The therapist who administered the intervention did not take part in the evaluation process; therefore, the study was conducted in a single-blind manner. Before the intervention, a trust-based relationship was established with the children, and sensory activities were performed within a play context. The interventions were not limited to oral activities but aimed to support overall sensory development \[8\]. Based on this program, sensory integration procedures were applied at regular intervals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Necmettin Erbakan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Neslihan Altuntaş Yılmaz, Assistant Professor · Necmettin Erbakan University

  • Ahmet Sami Güven, Professor · Necmettin Erbakan University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-12-01
Primary Completion
2024-11-01
Completion
2025-02-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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