Prematurity, child development, motor skills
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention - Experimental Group (EG)
Frequency and total duration of the intervention: single section, with duration of 4 minutes.
Number of subjects: 10
Type of subjects: healthy late preterm hum
this step must be carried out 3 times and also with the infant's left hand
2. the therapist holds the object and the infant's right hand within the infant's visual field. The infant then must actively touch the object
3. the therapist holds the object and uses it to apply tactile stimulus on the dorsal surface of the infant's right upper limb. The therapist must then present the object at the infant's midline in or
4. eliciate the infant's reaching movements. Steps 3 and 4 must be carried out 3 times and also with the infant's left hand.
Intervention - Control Group (CG):
Frequency and total duration of the i
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Sponsors
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Eligibility
Age
3 Months to 5 Months
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Infants born between 34 weeks and 36 weeks and 6 days of gestational age (late preterm infants), appropriate for gestational age, with first and fifth minute Apgar Scores greater than 7, with adequate motor performance according to the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS), without major pre- and perinatal complications, and at maternal care.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Infants who do not attend the evaluations/training in the scheduled period (until 5 days after the infant reaching acquisition) or do not perform reaching movements at the pre-training evaluation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reaching Performance: measured as the mean values of kinematics variables of reaching movement (straightness index, deceleration time, mean and final velocities, movement unit) and as the frequencies of uni/bimanual movements and hand opening/orientation when the infant touches the object. The gain in the reaching performance will be considered as the: increase in the values of straightness index between pre-training and post-training; increase in the values of deceleration time concomitant to the decrease in the values of mean and final velocities between pre-training and post-training; decrease in the values of movement units between pre-training and post-training; increase in the values of the frequencies of unimanual and bimanual reaches between pre-training and post-training; increase in the values of the frequencies of open hand between pre-training and post-training; increase in the values of the frequencies of hand vertical orientation between pre-training and post-training. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Success of Grasping: measured by the frequency of reaches with object grasping. The gain in the success of grasping will be considered as the increase in the values of the frequencies of grasps between pre-training and post-training. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactDaniele;Eloisa Soares;Tudella
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar);Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
Outcome results
None listed