Covid-19 Pandemic and Cerebral Palsy

NCT ID: NCT04686565

Last Updated: 2021-02-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-02-15
• Study Completion Date: 2021-02-28

Brief Summary

Investigator aimed to analyzed the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the physical-psychosocial and cognitive state of the children, to benefit form the health, education services and the caregiver's quality of life with telemedicine.

Detailed Description

Telemedicine is an application that provides remote healthcare services. Telemedicine method has been reported to be useful in chronic conditions such as cerebral palsy (CP). Patients with CP need regular follow-up, regular physiotherapy, orthosis use, using of antispasmodic drugs, repeated botulinum toxin applications or intrathecal baclofen to reduce spasticity and increase functionality. During the Covid-19 pandemic period, these patients could not come to their controls due to reasons such as difficulty in reaching the doctor, fear of infection transmission, could not continue physiotherapy, repeated botulinum toxin applications could not be performed and necessary operations could not be performed. In this cross sectional study, investigator aimed to analyzed the effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the physical-psychosocial and cognitive state of the children, to benefit form the health, education services and the caregiver's quality of life with telemedicine.

Conditions

Cerebral Palsy; Covid19; Telemedicine; Caregiver Quality of Life; Disability, Developmental

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients' ages between 3-18 years
• Caregiver of Patients diagnosed as Cerebral palsy
• Patients with routine follow-ups in our clinic
• Caregivers can be reach by phone

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients' ages under 3 and over 18 years

--Caregivers cannot be reach by phone

• Caregivers without quality of life results for the pre-pandemic period

• Minimum Eligible Age: 3 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Damla Cankurtaran

Medical doctor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Damla Cankurtaran, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital

Ece uNLU aKYUZ, Assoc Prof.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital

Nihal Tezel, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital

Locations

Diskapi Education and Research Hospital

Ankara, Altındag, Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

Damla Cankurtaran, MD

Role: CONTACT

damlacengizftr@gmail.com

+905054558101

Facility Contacts

Damla Cankurtaran, MD

Role: primary

damlacengizftr@gmail.com

+903125962994

References

Ben-Pazi H, Beni-Adani L, Lamdan R. Accelerating Telemedicine for Cerebral Palsy During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond. Front Neurol. 2020 Jun 26;11:746. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00746. eCollection 2020.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 32670193 (View on PubMed)

Cacioppo M, Bouvier S, Bailly R, Houx L, Lempereur M, Mensah-Gourmel J, Kandalaft C, Varengue R, Chatelin A, Vagnoni J, Vuillerot C, Gautheron V, Dinomais M, Dheilly E, Brochard S, Pons C; ECHO Group. Emerging health challenges for children with physical disabilities and their parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: The ECHO French survey. Ann Phys Rehabil Med. 2021 May;64(3):101429. doi: 10.1016/j.rehab.2020.08.001. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 32818674 (View on PubMed)

Satici B, Gocet-Tekin E, Deniz ME, Satici SA. Adaptation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Its Association with Psychological Distress and Life Satisfaction in Turkey. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2021;19(6):1980-1988. doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00294-0. Epub 2020 May 8.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 32395095 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

CP-covid

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id