Clinical Trial: Performance Analysis in Down Syndrome on Mobile Phone

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Performance Analysis in Down Syndrome Through a Maze Game on Mobile Phone

Brief Summary: The game Marble Maze Classic® will be used, in which the participants have to move the mobile phone to conduct a virtual marble through a maze design. The investigators will evaluate 100 individuals (50 with Down Syndrome-DS and 50 with typical development-TD) and divide both with DS and TD into group 1 and 2, where each group consists of 25 participants, with group 2 using a maze design totally opposite to group 1.

Detailed Summary:

The game Marble Maze Classic® will be used, in which the participants have to move the mobile phone to conduct a virtual marble through a maze design. The investigators will evaluate 100 individuals (50 with Down Syndrome-DS and 50 with typical development-TD) and divide both with DS and TD into group 1 and 2, where each group consists of 25 participants, with group 2 using a maze design totally opposite to group 1.

Participants from both SD and TD will be divided into two subgroups: Group 1 (n = 50, consisting of 25 participants in TD and 25 participants in SD) and Group 2 (n = 50, consisting 25 participants in TD and 25 participants in SD), with the design of the maze for group 2 totally opposite to that of group 1 in all stages of the experiment. The use of opposite mazes is necessary to verify that the sequence of movements of the maze path does not influence performance.

To maintain the characteristics of random sampling, where each participant has an equal chance to participate in the groups, The investigators used simple probabilistic random sampling, by conducting the drawing on paper.

PROCEDURES

Individuals will be positioned comfortably in a chair set according to the size necessary, as well as a footrest, so as to stay properly positioned to enable the execution of the task.

Before starting the task, the functioning of the game will be verbally explained, along with a demonstration made by the examiner. The examiner will state that the goal of the game is to get the marble to the end of the maze in the shortest possible time through movements up, down and sideways (supination and pronation of the forearm, flexion and extension of the wrist and fingers). Partic
Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Current Primary Outcome: Improvement of performance [ Time Frame: Up to 3 months ]

that individuals with DS would be able to adapt to the virtual task using the mobile phone and improve performance with practice in acquisition, as well as maintain the performance in transfer tasks, namely, to change the maze.


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: University of Sao Paulo

Dates:
Date Received: August 18, 2016
Date Started: September 2016
Date Completion:
Last Updated: April 8, 2017
Last Verified: April 2017