Movement Strategies During Balance Tasks in Children With and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder

NCT ID: NCT06802094

Last Updated: 2025-09-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-08-18
• Study Completion Date: 2027-08-31

Brief Summary

The main objective of the study is to gain insights in how children learn a balance task and whether there is a difference between children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Furthermore, the investigators are interested in the brain activity of these children while learning this new balance task.

Conditions

Development Coordination Disorder; Typical Developed Children

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Learning of a new balance task in virtual reality

All children will perform a single training session (30 minutes) in a virtual reality environment, where one game will be played to challenge their balance. After one week, the children will play two games in the virtual reality environment to look at the retention (same game as first session) and transfer (similar game as first session).

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Single-session balance intervention in virtual reality

Intervention Type: OTHER

Single-session balance intervention (30 minutes) in a virtual reality environment, the Gait Real-time analysis Interactive Lab (GRAIL) or the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (Motek Medical, The Netherlands).

Interventions

Single-session balance intervention in virtual reality

Single-session balance intervention (30 minutes) in a virtual reality environment, the Gait Real-time analysis Interactive Lab (GRAIL) or the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (Motek Medical, The Netherlands).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

For children with DCD

• Children with the clinical diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) based on criteria of the DSM-5 (APA, 2013), diagnosed by a pediatrician.
• Balance problems need to be present and objectified with the Balance Evaluation Systems Test for Children, second edition (Kids-BESTest-2). (total score below 80%)

For children without DCD

• Total score at or below the 25th percentile on the Movement Assessment Battery for children, second edition
• Normal postural control, objectified by the Kids-BESTest-2 (score at or above 80%)
• Match with children with DCD based on their sex, age and potential comorbidities.

Exclusion Criteria

Presence of:

• Intellectual problems
• Visual problems
• Vestibular problems
• Neurological conditions
• Not able to follow instructions due to behavioral problems
• Refuse to participate

• Minimum Eligible Age: 7 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Hasselt University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Katrijn Klingels

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Hasselt Univeristy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences

Diepenbeek, Limburg, Belgium

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Belgium

Central Contacts

Maja Van Grinderbeek

Role: CONTACT

maja.vangrinderbeek@uhasselt.be

+32476332092

Katrijn Klingels

Role: CONTACT

katrijn.klingels@uhasselt.be

Facility Contacts

Maja Van Grinderbeek

Role: primary

maja.vangrinderbeek@uhasselt.be

+32476332092

Other Identifiers

B1152024000023

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id