Exercise Training Among Children With Cerebral Palsy to Increase Health and Well-being - A Feasibility Study
NCT ID: NCT07025694
Last Updated: 2025-06-17
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RECRUITING
NA
20 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2025-05-01
2027-12-31
Brief Summary
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However, the knowledge on how eHealth can support children with CP to participate in exercise is scarce and to the best of our knowledge there are no studies studying eHealth to increase exercise in children with CP. If HOME-EX research project is successful, we will unravel knowledge that will facilitate implementation of prescription of targeted, personalized exercise regimes to children with CP to enhance health and wellbeing and furthermore set a healthy lifestyle.
PURPOSE AND AIMS
The overall goal of the HOME-EX project is to develop, feasibility test, pilot the efficacy and map the conditions for future implement an eHealth application to support participation in exercise at home in children with CP who are ambulant (CP-A). The specific aims are:
Aim 1: From a pre-exciting eHealth-solution develop an application for Android-based tablet supporting exercise in the home of the children with CP-A in co-creation with children, family caregivers, professional caregivers, sports professionals and researchers.
Aim 2: Develop exercise sessions, as online supervised session and pre-video recorded sessions in co-creation with children, family caregivers, professional caregivers, sports professionals and researchers, to be delivered by the eHealth-solution.
Aim 3: To study the feasibility of the delivery of the exercise sessions from the eHealth-solution.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood, approximately 1.6/1000 children have CP with affected muscle tone, movement and motor skills, often accompanied by pain, epilepsy and intellectual, communicational and behavioural impairment.
The degree of motor impairment in CP is extremely variable and classified with the 5-level Gross Motor Function Classification System Expanded \& Revised (GMFCS-E\&R). Children with CP-A (GMFCS-E\&R level I-II) can either walk and/ stand independently.
Project management Since children are non-autonomous, the common point of departure for our research is the family; lifestyle changes as well as interventions must be implemented through the family. Feasibility testing aims to analyse clinical, procedural, and methodological uncertainties of the exercise testing and the exercise training interventions designed in co-creation with stakeholders. If no major changes are made to the study design and/or the intervention these children will be included into the piloting phase.
Recruitment In total, 20 children - 10 children with CP-A and 10 who are TD as healthy controls - aged between 10 to 16 years old will be recruited. The children in the two groups will be matched for age, BMI, and physical activity level.
Study 1: Addressing aim 1-2 - Development of an exercise-application Methodology: Workshops to further develop the eHealth app: Four separate workshops will then be conducted to discuss the functions and the setup of communication of the initial prototype, as well as how to deliver the exercise sessions and what they preferably may contain. Workshop 1 will consist of 4-6 children children with CP-A and TD. Workshop 2 will consist of family caregivers. Workshop 3 of professional caregivers as physiotherapists and workshop 4 of sport professionals as personal trainers. The workshops will employ a participatory approach, enabling active contributions from participants and be facilitated by researchers from the research group. After the workshops, the eHealth app will be updated by a technician based on the feedback received.
Study 2: Addressing aim 3 - Feasibility testing of an exercise-application Methodology: Four children in each group, in total eight children, will take part in the feasibility analysis. During the first three weeks will the children be supervised at schedule timepoints through an eHealth solution and during the last three weeks the children follows pre-recorded exercise sessions at a suitable time for the family.
After the first 6 weeks of exercise training procedural, clinical and methodological uncreates will be analysed. Feedback from the participants and their family-caregivers, will be collected through semi-structured interviews to evaluate the feasibility of the exercise training intervention. Depending on the findings during the feasibility testing, the exercise training intervention may change.
DATA ANALYS AND STATISTIC A mixed method approach will be used to meet the aims of the project and collect both quantitative and qualitative data.
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
CROSSOVER
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Children with Cerebral Plasy who are Ambulant (CP-A)
Children with CP-A defined classified with the 5-level Gross Motor Function Classification System Expanded \& Revised (as GMFCS-E\&R) as GMFCS-E\&R I-II.
A eHealth application on a computer tablet contected to a secure severer with an interface on a computer to deliver exercise interventions.
Feasibility, acceptability and usability testing of delivering home-based exercise MICT and HIIT via a Vidoe-call at fixed time-points. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom.
A eHealth application on a computer tablet contected to a secure severer with an interface on a computer to deliver exercise interventions
Feasibility, acceptability and usability testing of delivering home-based exercise MICT and HIIT via a pre-recorded videos at convenient time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision
Moderate Intensity Continues Training
The MICT exercise training on a spinning-bike will consist of moderate intensity-longer (60%Wpeak) duration exercise carried out 3 times per week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom, and at time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision. Exercise will consist of continuous biking at an individualized workload based on pre-exercise testing, for a total time of 30 minutes.
High intensity interval training
The HIIT exercise training on a spinning-bike will begin by using a protocol consisting of bouts of high-intensity (95%Wpeak) exercise lasting for 60 seconds. These bouts will be interspersed by 4 minutes of low intensity exercising (40%Wpeak). There will be 5 bouts per session. Exercise will consist of continuous biking at individualized workloads based on pre-exercise testing. The exercise will be carried out 3 times per week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom, and at time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision.
Children who are Typically Developted (TD)
Ambulant children who are TD with no other neurological diagnoses, metabolic diagnoses, orthopaedic disabilities, asthma, heart diseases, cognitive impairment, or indigestion of regular medication.
A eHealth application on a computer tablet contected to a secure severer with an interface on a computer to deliver exercise interventions.
Feasibility, acceptability and usability testing of delivering home-based exercise MICT and HIIT via a Vidoe-call at fixed time-points. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom.
A eHealth application on a computer tablet contected to a secure severer with an interface on a computer to deliver exercise interventions
Feasibility, acceptability and usability testing of delivering home-based exercise MICT and HIIT via a pre-recorded videos at convenient time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision
Moderate Intensity Continues Training
The MICT exercise training on a spinning-bike will consist of moderate intensity-longer (60%Wpeak) duration exercise carried out 3 times per week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom, and at time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision. Exercise will consist of continuous biking at an individualized workload based on pre-exercise testing, for a total time of 30 minutes.
High intensity interval training
The HIIT exercise training on a spinning-bike will begin by using a protocol consisting of bouts of high-intensity (95%Wpeak) exercise lasting for 60 seconds. These bouts will be interspersed by 4 minutes of low intensity exercising (40%Wpeak). There will be 5 bouts per session. Exercise will consist of continuous biking at individualized workloads based on pre-exercise testing. The exercise will be carried out 3 times per week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom, and at time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision.
Interventions
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A eHealth application on a computer tablet contected to a secure severer with an interface on a computer to deliver exercise interventions.
Feasibility, acceptability and usability testing of delivering home-based exercise MICT and HIIT via a Vidoe-call at fixed time-points. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom.
A eHealth application on a computer tablet contected to a secure severer with an interface on a computer to deliver exercise interventions
Feasibility, acceptability and usability testing of delivering home-based exercise MICT and HIIT via a pre-recorded videos at convenient time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision
Moderate Intensity Continues Training
The MICT exercise training on a spinning-bike will consist of moderate intensity-longer (60%Wpeak) duration exercise carried out 3 times per week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom, and at time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision. Exercise will consist of continuous biking at an individualized workload based on pre-exercise testing, for a total time of 30 minutes.
High intensity interval training
The HIIT exercise training on a spinning-bike will begin by using a protocol consisting of bouts of high-intensity (95%Wpeak) exercise lasting for 60 seconds. These bouts will be interspersed by 4 minutes of low intensity exercising (40%Wpeak). There will be 5 bouts per session. Exercise will consist of continuous biking at individualized workloads based on pre-exercise testing. The exercise will be carried out 3 times per week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday during the 3 week-period of supervision via zoom, and at time-point with at least one day in between during the periods of video-supervision.
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* children who are TD and not participating in any regular and planned leisure time physical exercise will be included in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
* ambulant children who are TD with other neurological diagnoses, metabolic diagnoses, orthopaedic disabilities, asthma, heart diseases, cognitive impairment, or indigestion of regular medication.
10 Years
16 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Lund University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Åsa Tornberg
Associate Professor and Senior LEcturer
Principal Investigators
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Åsa B Tornberg, Associate Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Department of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty, Lund Univeristy, Sweden
Locations
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Medical Faculty, Lund University
Lund, Skåne County, Sweden
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Other Identifiers
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LU_HOME-EX2025
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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