Participation in physical leisure pursuits and play in children with motor impairments: developing a theory- and evidenc

6%至9%的儿童在运动能力（如协调、平衡）和参与日常生活（包括参加体育休闲活动和游戏）方面存在问题。这些儿童面临长期健康和社会困难的高风险。适当的治疗和支持可能对这些儿童及其家庭以及更广泛的社会产生相当大的终生益处。目前，这些儿童可获得的帮助包括职业治疗师和物理治疗师推荐的不同类型的练习和游戏。几乎没有研究表明这些药物是否真的对孩子有帮助。其他领域的研究表明，使用支持的策略，例如，个人的信心或动机，可以产生不同的效果。虽然治疗师已经在练习和游戏中包含了一些这样的策略，但他们并没有系统地这样做。拟议中的项目将与儿童及其父母合作，并使用两个框架（来自世界卫生组织和医学研究理事会）来开发方法，以增加儿童参与体育休闲活动，并以他们可以接受的方式进行游戏。该项目将为未来发展儿童非药物治疗铺平道路。

Between six and nine percent of children experience problems with their motor abilities (e.g. coordination, balance) and participation in daily life (including taking part in physical leisure pursuits and play). These children are at high risk of long-term health and social difficulties. Appropriate treatments and support potentially have considerable lifetime benefits for these children and their families, and for society more widely.Currently, the help available to these children consists of different kinds of exercises and games recommended by occupational therapists and physiotherapists. There is little research to say whether these actually help the children. Research in other fields has shown that using strategies that support, for example, the person‘s confidence or motivation can make a difference. Although therapists include some of these strategies in the exercises and games already, they do not do this systematically. The proposed project will work with children and their parents, and use two frameworks (from the World Health Organisation and the Medical Research Council) to develop ways to increase children‘s participation in physical leisure pursuits and play in ways acceptable to them. The project will pave the way for future development of non-drug treatments for children.