Smartphone App for Analysis of General Movements in Young Infants

Analysis of spontaneous movements in young infants from video recordings is recommended as an early medical assessment tool for prediction of cerebral palsy in high-risk infants. Such video recording have previously been performed in follow-up programs at hospitals using semi standardized video set-ups. The research group behind this study develops a smart-phone application that makes it possible for parents to video film their infant spontaneous movements at home, upload and send the video for analysis at the hospital provided by experts. The objectives of the study are to assess the feasibility of the In-Motion app for video recording of infant spontaneous movements, upload and send the video to St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway, for assessment, and how parents experience this. 90-120 high-risk infants from Norway, Denmark, Belgium, USA, Great Britain and India will participate. Parents will record their infant spontaneous movements and answer questionnaires. Video quality will be evaluated by experts within the field and their use for computer-based assessment will be evaluated.

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Key information

Conditions

Cerebral Palsy Brain Damage, Chronic Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases

Age range

12 week–17 week

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

Infants referred to high-risk follow-up at the hospital

Exclusion criteria

Unstable medical condition, progressive disorders, or diagnosis with a specific syndrome affecting motor development.

Treatment and study plan

in-Motion app

Device

mobile phone application for recording fidgety movements at home

Primary outcomes

Percentage of recordings that movement video recordings fulfil requirements needed for observation and classification of fidgety general movements

Time frame: 17 weeks post term age
Ease of use of the In-Motion App in score on the Software usability scale (SUS) as part of a questionnaire sent to users two weeks after received video recordings

Time frame: 2 weeks after received video recordings

SUS is a 10 item questionnaire with 5 response options between 'strongly disagree' and 'strongly agree'. All values are scaled from 0 to 4 (with four being the most positive response). The range of possible values is converted from 0 to 100. A SUS score above a 68 would be considered above average. See https://measuringu.com/sus/
Correlation between computer-based software estimates by smartphone videos performed by parents at home and standard videos performed at the hospital follow-up clinic

Time frame: 17 weeks

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

St. Olavs Hospital

Other

Collaborators

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Hillerod Hospital, Denmark
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University Ghent
University of Illinois at Chicago

Registry information

Official study title

Feasibility of a Smartphone Application for Computer-based Movement Analysis During the Fidgety Period of General Movements

Important dates

Study start: 2018
Primary completion: 2019
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Jan 25, 2018
Registry last updated: Feb 19, 2020

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