WeFun-wearable activated: 1 month daily routine program with weekly visits in natural environments (home, community, etc) together with WeFun-weareable to increase spontaneous use of the upper limb in children with UCP during activities of daily life and leisure. Activities are priorized by Canadian Occupational Performance Measure and Goal Atteinment Scale. Programs are designed together with a transdisciplinary team, acting as consultants. Children in the experimental group will have the wearable's experimental movement functions activated.
WeFun-wearable desactivated: 1 month daily routine program with weekly visits in natural environments (home, community, etc) together with WeFun-weareable to increase spontaneous use of the upper limb in children with UCP during activities of daily life and leisure. Activities are priorized by Canadian Occupational Performance Measure and Goal Atteinment Scale. Programs are designed together with a transdisciplinary team, acting as consultants. Children in the control group will not have experimental functions in their wearables.
Study summary
The project is configured as a national interventional study that aims to determine the effectiveness of an intervention strategy using wearable technology, tailored to improve function (WeFun-wearable), on the spontaneous use of the affected upper extremity, activities of daily living and the participation in children with unilateral cerebral palsy.
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
3 Years
Max age
8 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria:
* Confirmed diagnosis of UCP.
* Children aged between 3 and 8 years old.
* Children rated on levels I to III on the Manual Ability Classification System (MACS).
Exclusion Criteria:
* Botulinum toxin injection or surgical interventions in the upper limb within 6 months prior to study entry.
* Medical complications non-controlled that would interfere with study participation (e.g., not controlled epilepsy).
* Predominantly athetoid or dystonia movement patterns.
* Insufficient cognitive level to follow instructions,
* Non-corrected marked visual impairments.
Families can be retired from the study after starting if:
* Families don't assist or don't collaborate in the weekly sessions with the reference person.
* Wearable activity if presumably lower than expected (few recordings of activity, \<20%).
* Families don't provide feedback about daily sessions through the satisfaction system in the app/registration sheet.
Primary outcome measure(s)
Bimanual performance/functional hand use — Baseline, immediately after the intervention and after 2 months follow-up The Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA) evaluates the spontaneous use of the more affected upper limb during bimanual activities. For these assessments a semi-structured play session with standardized toys and materials, that require the use of both hands, is performed and video-recorded. Subsequently, 20 items are scored in a rating range of 4 points, and the sum of scores in AHA may vary between 22 and 88 points. Through Rasch analysis this ordinal scale is transformed into AHA units ranging from 0 to 100 to obtain the final score. The AHA has shown to be a reliable and valid assessment for children and adolescents with unilateral cerebral palsy.
This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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