OT OUTCOMES: CHILDREN WITH SENSORY MODULATION DISORDERS

OT 结果：患有感觉调节障碍的儿童

• 批准号: 2752360
• 负责人: LUCY J MILLER
• 金额: $ 8.42万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-03-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2752360
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; child with disability; clinical research; early experience; functional ability; human subject; human therapy evaluation; medical rehabilitation related tag; middle childhood (6-11); neuroregulation; occupational therapy; outcomes research; pediatrics; preschool child (1-5); psychological models; rehabilitation; sensory disorders

This career development award will enable the applicant to become an independent investigator in a new field of study, outcomes research in pediatric rehabilitation. A combination of classroom education (25 percent) at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, intensive mentorship (25 percent) with two co- mentors and a committee of five additional experts, and completion of a related research project (50 percent) will consolidate her new career focus. Exemplary environmental and research supports for applicant exist at these two institutions. The applicant's skills in design and analysis of outcome research will be solidified through performance of a research project. The sample includes 63 children diagnosed with sensory modulation disorder (SMD) by a norm-referenced scale. A combination of physiologic responses, standardized rating scales of attention, anxiety and activities of daily living, and additional clinical measures will estimate post-treatment changes in impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities. If SMD inclusion criteria are met, child is assigned to one of three groups using blocked, random allocation: immediate treatment, wait-list condition, or alternative treatment. The target experimental treatment, OT with SI model combines functional occupation-based interventions, sensory integrative activities, and family centered care. Alternative OT treatment uses a skills-based model. Post-treatment examination on outcome variables are made by a blind examiner. Group by time repeated measures analysis of variance is used to analyze data, differentiating the effectiveness of the three treatment conditions. The combination of classroom education, intensive mentorship and conducting the research project will enable applicant to: 1) learn and disseminate research methodologies appropriate to measuring complex "occupation-based" outcomes to the field, and 2) develop a longitudinal program of research related to SMD. The project also provides a mechanism for applicant to learn how to evaluate the relation between physiologic/impairment variables, and to explore which is most useful in predicting improvements.

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