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NCT Number: NCT04185324

Efficacy of an Intervention to Teach Zippering: A Two-Group Control Study

Preschoolers are assigned to a control group or a comparison group to examine the efficacy of a new intervention to teach the skill of engaging and pulling up a zipper.

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Key information

Conditions

Typical Preschoolers Who Can Not Zipper

Age range

42 month–60 month

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Little Joes preschool

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, 19046, United States

About this study

Purpose: This pilot study compares the efficacy of a standard teaching zippering vest presented with general verbal prompts to a modified teaching zippering vest presented with a related story and vocabulary in the acquisition of zippering skills among typically developing preschoolers. Institutional Review Board approval and parent consent was obtained.

Design: An experimental two group pre-post test design was used. Setting: Research occurred in a local preschool. Participants: Participants were recruited from fifty 3.6-to 4.11-year-old preschoolers.

Intervention: Eligible children received 3 zippering practice sessions with either a standard zippering vest (control group) or a modified vest with added visual and language cues (comparison group).

The treatment protocol for both cohorts of participants was administered over a three-week time period to minimize the impact of normal development.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Child must be typically developing as assessed by the Developmental Assessment of Young Children 2 (DAYC-2) developmental screening.

Child must be between 42 and 60 months of age. Child must be unable to zip by a) parent report and b) three observed attempts to zipper -

Exclusion criteria

Child must meet inclusion criteria and be present at school during three researcher visits to the preschool within three consecutive weeks.

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Treatment and study plan

Standard zippering vest

Behavioral

Standard zippering vest used to teach zippering

Other names: Control group

Modified zippering vest

Behavioral

Modified zippering vest used to teach zippering, along with related story

Other names: Comparison group

Primary outcomes

  1. Zippering steps completed

    Time frame: all data was collected within three weeks for each child to minimize the impact of typical development

    The task of engaging and pulling up a zipper was broken down to 7 steps. By examining video data, the number of zippering steps completed was analyzed for each zippering trial.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Salus University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Effectiveness of Visual Cues and Verbal Storytelling in Teaching Preschool Children Zippering

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Dec 4, 2019
Registry last updated
Mar 31, 2020

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