The Effect of Physiotherapy and Nutrition Services Provided by Telerehabilitation Method on the Physical, Nutrition and Psychological Conditions of Children With Autism and Their Families

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The study, titled The Effect of Physiotherapy and Nutrition Services Provided by Telerehabilitation Methods on the Physical, Nutritional and Psychological Conditions of Children with Autism and Their Families, aimed to evaluate the effects of physiotherapy and nutrition education to be given to the participants. Participants were children with autism spectrum disorder and parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. There will be surveys that researchers will ask participants to answer. Parent telerehabilitation group participants via smartphone video conferencing; Researchers involved in this project; A physiotherapist and a physiotherapist senior physiotherapy intern will send 1 session of online simultaneous exercise training to the parent telerehabilitation group participants, then an exercise video containing the exercises and brochures will be sent and the parent telerehabilitation group participants will be asked to do the exercises 3 days a week. Participants will be asked to keep an exercise diary and the status of the diaries will be monitored once a week. Additionally, the concepts of physical activity and recreational activity in autism will be explained to the participants. Again, via smartphone video conferencing, the researchers participating in this project; 3 different nutrition trainings will be given by 1 dietitian and 1 senior dietitian trainee within the scope of basic nutrition and nutrition-health information at 15-day intervals. Waist, hip and height measurements of autistic child participants will be measured with a tape measure, and their body weight will be measured with a scale. The study will last 2 months.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 6
Maximum Age: 11
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• Volunteering to participate in the study

• 6-11 years old child

• Have an approved medical diagnosis for Asperger's syndrome, autism, or a specific developmental disorder (DSM 5), by the standards set in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition

• Children with mild to moderate autism according to the childhood autism rating scale

• Not having received physical activity and nutrition counseling before

• Children with normal orally fed and functioning gastrointestinal tract

Locations
Other Locations
Turkey
Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi
RECRUITING
Istanbul
Contact Information
Primary
Esra Pehlivan, assoc. prof.
esra.pehlivan@sbu.edu.tr
+902163463636
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-11-22
Estimated Completion Date: 2024-08-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 36
Treatments
Experimental: Telerehabilitation Group (TRG)
The group given physical activity and nutrition counseling for 2 months through telerehabilitation.
Active_comparator: Conventional Rehabilitation Group (CRG)
The group who received conventional treatment and had no intervention, only pretest measurements
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov