Visual Perceptual Motor Training on Kindergarteners

NCT ID: NCT05795738

Last Updated: 2024-03-26

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

180 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-11-01

Study Completion Date

2026-08-31

Brief Summary

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The study aims to investigate the effects of different visuomotor training programs on children's visuomotor skills and handwriting performance.

Detailed Description

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The purpose of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of visuomotor activities with different activity materials on fine motor, visual perception, visual-motor integration and handwriting performance of kindergarten children. Kindergarteners will be randomized into the three groups: control, Chinese, and traditional groups. Children in the Chinese and traditional groups will receive a visual perceptual motor training program twice every week for 12 weeks and those in the control group will not receive any intervention during the study period. in the end of fall semester of the first grade, the effectiveness of the interventional programs on handwriting performance of participants will be examined again.

Conditions

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Agraphia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors
The assessors are blinded to the assigned group of participants

Study Groups

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Control group

regular kindergarten education

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Chinese characters-based visual-motor program

visual perceptual motor activities using Chinese characters as activity materials.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Chinese character-based visuomotor training program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

this program includes visual-perceptual-motor play, paper-pencil activities, and ipad games using Chinese character as activity materials

traditional visual-motor training program

visual perceptual motor activities using commercial or self-designed toys and pencil-paper sheets as activity materials.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

traditional visuomotor training program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

this program includes play and paper-and-pencil activities, ipad games using commercial or self-designed stuffs as activity materials

Interventions

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Chinese character-based visuomotor training program

this program includes visual-perceptual-motor play, paper-pencil activities, and ipad games using Chinese character as activity materials

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

traditional visuomotor training program

this program includes play and paper-and-pencil activities, ipad games using commercial or self-designed stuffs as activity materials

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Kindergarten children who will study the first grade in coming September
* Both parents are native Mandarin Chinese speakers

Exclusion Criteria

* A diagnosis of significant neurological, muscular, and skeletal system disorders
* Visual or hearing problems that cannot be corrected to be normal
* Genetic or chromosomal abnormality
* Significant neurological, muscular, and skeletal damage to the trunk or upper extremities
* moderate or severe intellectual disabilities
Minimum Eligible Age

5 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

6 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Science and Technology Council

FED

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Cheng-Kung University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Yea-Shwu Hwang, ScD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National Cheng Kung University

Locations

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National Cheng Kung University

Tainan City, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Yea-Shwu H Hwang, ScD

Role: CONTACT

886-62353535 ext. 5914

References

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Other Identifiers

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A-ER-111-161

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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