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ID
Source
Health condition
Motor development, Developmental Coordination Disorder, coordination, reaching
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
-kinematic measures of the reaching movement of the tip of the index finger
-Joint position data
-joint angle motions and variability
-uncontrolled manifold analyses (GEV and NGEV)
Secondary outcome
- Joint position data
- Anthropometry
- Movement ABC-2 score
- Sport participation
Background summary
Of all school-aged children 6% are diagnosed with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). These children have difficulties performing everyday fine and gross motor tasks at home and in school. Especially complex motor activities cause difficulties, for example coordinating the hand to catch a ball or performing goal-directed reaching movements. DCD is a condition that does not only affect motor behaviour, but it also has a large impact on social and psychological aspects of daily living. The broad bandwidth of problems related to DCD underlines the need of a thorough understanding of which motor control processes are deviant in this disorder. In the field of upper extremity movements, most research on DCD has been on outcome measures of motor tasks such as accuracy, thereby ignoring joint coordination bringing about that task performance.
The aim of this study is therefore to determine how joint coordination of children with DCD aged 5 to 11 years is affected compared to typically developing children when upper extremity movements are performed, i.e. reaching and interception movements.
Study design
Participants will be measured once.
Intervention
no intervention is applied
Laura Golenia
Groningen
The Netherlands
050-3632651
l.golenia@umcg.nl
Laura Golenia
Groningen
The Netherlands
050-3632651
l.golenia@umcg.nl
Inclusion criteria
In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:
- the diagnostic criteria for DCD as listed in the DSM-V and operationalized in the Dutch guideline for assessment and intervention of DCD
- Aged: 5 to 11 years
- Right handed
- Being able to follow the test instructions
- Parental consent
- normal or corrected to normal visual sight
Exclusion criteria
A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
-Movement ABC score above P16
-Any upper extremity problems, in particular neurological diseases, recent injuries or musculoskeletal problems in the neck, shoulder, arm or hand regions
Design
Recruitment
Followed up by the following (possibly more current) registration
Other (possibly less up-to-date) registrations in this register
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL6231 |
| NTR-old | NTR6411 |
| CCMO | NL55121.042.15 |
| OMON | NL-OMON43696 |