Effect of vestibular-based minds-in-motion programme on motor proficiency and cognition in elementary school students /
تأثر برنامج التحفز الحركى - العقلى القائم على الجھاز الدھلزى على الكفاءة الحركة والمعرفة لدى تلامذ التعلم الإبتدائى
Asmaa Salah Elsayed Atwa ; Supervised Gehan Mosaad Abdelmaksoud ,Emad Abdelmaksoud Mabrouk
- Cairo : Asmaa Salah Elsayed Atwa , 2021
- 285 P. : charts , facsimiles , photoghraphs ; 25cm
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Growth and Development Disorders in Pediatrics
Background: Normal motor development and engagement in adequate levels of physical activity (PA) during childhood paves the way for better future growth, and lay the durable foundation of long-term psychological, intellectual and physiological health. Objective: The aim of the current study was to examine the influence of Minds-in-Motion Maze (M-i-M M) programme in boosting motor skills (MSs) and cognitive ability in school-aged children, and place the findings within the larger context of the role of non-perceptual factors such as age, gender and gender-age on affecting the results obtained. Materials and methods: Design; A randomized controlled trial (RCT). Setting; Public primary school. Subjects; Participants were 100 young schoolers aged between six and eight years old with a mean of 7.32 years and a standard deviation (SD) of 0.82 years. They were randomly assigned to experimental (EG) and control (CG) group (50 subjects/each). Interventions; While the CG received unstructured PA, the children in the EG engaged, on a regular basis, in the M-i-M M vestibular stimulation programme (24 weeks of a 30-minute structured PA on a daily basis). Measurements; The intervention was preceded by pre-testing and followed by post-testing of children for the motor and cognitive parameters under study. The motor proficiency and cognitive ability were evaluated using the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor ProficiencyTMSecond Edition, complete form (BOTTM-2 CF), and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV), respectively.Results: The analyzed data indicated that engaging in M-i-M M activities significantly affected the motor and cognitive abilities among children. In this sense, the between group analysis using Mann-Whitney U-Test showed higher significant improvement (p 0.05) in the EG compared to the CG in all motor and cognitive abilities. Boys outperformed girls in all tests, notably with MSs (EG). The age had significant positive impact on childrens acquired motor and cognitive skills
Cognitive abilities Minds-in-Motion Maze programme Motor skills