Effectiveness of a 6-week hippotherapy program in children with autism spectrum disorder

为期 6 周的马术治疗计划对自闭症谱系障碍儿童的有效性

• 批准号: 9904069
• 负责人: Anastasia Kyvelidou
• 金额: $ 7.28万
• 依托单位: CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9904069
• 关键词: Adaptive Behaviors; Address; Affect; Animals; Attention; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Caregivers; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Cerebral Palsy; Child; Clinical Trials; Communication; Control Groups; Coupling; Development; Diagnosis; Economic Burden; Effectiveness; Emotional; Environment; Equus caballus; Experimental Designs; Family; Foundations; Future; Goals; Grooming; Heart; Heart Rate; Human; Incidence; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Measures; Motor; Motor Skills; Movement; Musculoskeletal Equilibrium; Occupational Therapy; Outcome; Parents; Perception; Physiological; Pilot Projects; Posture; Prevalence; Protocols documentation; Race; Reporting; Research; Signal Transduction; Social Behavior; Solid; Speech Therapy; Symptoms; System; Systems Theory; Temperament; Testing; Therapeutic; Time; Treatment Efficacy; United States; age group; autism spectrum disorder; autistic children; base; boys; cognitive skill; common treatment; developmental disease; dosage; dynamic system; effectiveness testing; emotional behavior; executive function; girls; improved; innovation; intervention program; programs; psychologic; response; skills; social; success; therapy outcome; tool

PROJECT SUMMARY The incidence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has increased dramatically in the last decade. The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that 1 in 59 children are being diagnosed with ASD and it is four times more prevalent in boys than girls. Common treatments for children with ASD are applied behavioral therapy, occupational and speech therapy, which are used solely or in combination. Hippotherapy (HPOT) is another treatment option that has been shown to positively impact various aspects of behavior. This pilot project aims to determine the effects of a 6-week HPOT program on movement and social behavior of children with ASD and to investigate the underlying mechanisms of why HPOT is successful for ASD through the coupling of physiological and temperamental responses between horse and rider. Our approach involves examining these skills pre, during, and post HPOT intervention in children diagnosed with ASD. A group of aged matched children with typical development will serve as the control group. Innovative measures of physiological coupling and temperament between horse and rider as well as objective and quantitative measures of movement and social behavior and caregiver perception will be collected. We anticipate that following completion of the proposed study, we will provide the necessary foundation to understand the mechanisms of HPOT, and thus provide a new framework to test clinical trials of HPOT and human-animal interaction, and ultimately improve the lives of those diagnosed with ASD and their families.

项目摘要 自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的发病率在过去十年中急剧增加。的 疾病控制和预防中心的最新报告指出，每59名儿童中就有1名 被诊断为ASD，男孩的患病率是女孩的四倍。儿童常见的治疗方法 ASD是应用行为治疗，职业和语言治疗，单独或联合使用。 组合.海马疗法（HPOT）是另一种治疗选择，已被证明具有积极影响 行为的各个方面。该试点项目旨在确定为期6周的HPOT计划对 ASD儿童的运动和社会行为，并研究其背后的机制， HPOT是成功的ASD通过耦合的生理和气质反应之间 马和骑手我们的方法包括在HPOT干预之前、期间和之后检查这些技能， 被诊断为ASD的儿童一组年龄匹配、发育典型的儿童将作为 对照组创新措施的生理耦合和气质之间的马和骑手， 以及运动和社会行为以及护理人员感知的客观和定量测量， 收集。我们预计在完成拟议研究后， 为了解HPOT的机制奠定了基础，从而为临床试验提供了一个新的框架， HPOT和人与动物的互动，并最终改善那些被诊断患有ASD的人的生活， 家庭