Awareness Among Physiotherapists About Effectiveness of Sensory Integration Therapy on Cerebral Palsy Population.
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- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cerebral Palsy (CP). Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Pakistan
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Awareness Among Physiotherapists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa About the Effectiveness of Sensory Integration Therapy on Cerebral Palsy Population.
Overview
The study is to interrogate the awareness level of physiotherapists that are working in the region of KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, to access whether they know about sensory integration therapy or they use it for the patients of cerebral palsy in their treatment plan or not.
Detailed description
The study title is ''AWARENESS AMONG PHYSICAL THERAPISTS OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SENSORY INTEGRATION THERAPY ON CEREBRAL PALSY POPULATION.' it is a cross-sectional study that will be conducted in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The data will be conducted by 110 physical therapists on a self designed tool, that will allow us to know about the awareness among the physical therapist of this particular region to know if they are using sensory integration therapy in the treatment plan of the children suffering from cerebral palsy to know whether the sensory issues are being addressed over there by this therapy or not. Another purpose of this study is to make the therapists aware about sensory integration therapy and its efficacy in treating sensory processing and sensory integration issues present in the children that are suffering from cerebral palsy. The data will be collected by the physical therapists that are currently working in various hospitals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa located in different regions of the province.
Primary outcome measures
- Survey tool awareness of Physical Therapists about sensory integration therapy [Time frame: 60 minutes]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Physical Therapists working across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa representative of all divisions of the province.
- Physical Therapists working as clinicians or working in healthcare vicinities from at least 2 years.
Exclusion criteria
- Non practicing Physical Therapists
- Freshly graduated Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapists working in areas other than Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
Study locations
Pakistan · 1 center
- Riphah International University — Lahore
Publications
- Warutkar VB, Krishna Kovela R. Review of Sensory Integration Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy. Cureus. 2022 Oct 26;14(10):e30714. doi: 10.7759/cureus.30714. eCollection 2022 Oct. PMID 36439588
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06748196 · REC/RCR/AHS/24/0719