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Efficacy of an Intervention to Teach Zippering: A Two-Group Control Study

NCT ID: NCT04185324

Last Updated: 2020-03-31

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

28 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-09-01

Study Completion Date

2020-01-30

Brief Summary

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Preschoolers are assigned to a control group or a comparison group to examine the efficacy of a new intervention to teach the skill of engaging and pulling up a zipper.

Detailed Description

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Purpose: This pilot study compares the efficacy of a standard teaching zippering vest presented with general verbal prompts to a modified teaching zippering vest presented with a related story and vocabulary in the acquisition of zippering skills among typically developing preschoolers. Institutional Review Board approval and parent consent was obtained.

Design: An experimental two group pre-post test design was used. Setting: Research occurred in a local preschool. Participants: Participants were recruited from fifty 3.6-to 4.11-year-old preschoolers.

Intervention: Eligible children received 3 zippering practice sessions with either a standard zippering vest (control group) or a modified vest with added visual and language cues (comparison group).

The treatment protocol for both cohorts of participants was administered over a three-week time period to minimize the impact of normal development.

Conditions

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Typical Preschoolers Who Can Not Zipper

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

two cohort
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Caregivers
Preschoolers are not aware of whether they receive zippering instruction using a standard teaching zippering vest or the modified one. The parents were not aware which group their child was put in. All children received extra practice with zippering, in both groups.

Study Groups

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Standard zippering vest

Children receive three supervised sessions for them to practice engaging and pull up a zipper, using a standard teaching zippering vest.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Standard zippering vest

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standard zippering vest used to teach zippering

Modified zippering vest

Children receive three sessions of specially designed zippering instruction using a modified zippering vest, where they can practice engaging and pulling up a zipper after being read a related story.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Modified zippering vest

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Modified zippering vest used to teach zippering, along with related story

Interventions

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Standard zippering vest

Standard zippering vest used to teach zippering

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Modified zippering vest

Modified zippering vest used to teach zippering, along with related story

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Control group Comparison group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Child must be between 42 and 60 months of age. Child must be unable to zip by a) parent report and b) three observed attempts to zipper -


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Minimum Eligible Age

42 Months

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Months

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Salus University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Fern Silverman, EdD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Salus University

Locations

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Little Joes preschool

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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SalusU

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id