Effect of visual, cognitive and motor interventions on fine motor skills in children with thalassemia major
Poster Presentation
Paper ID : 1771-12THCONG
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1Master of Motivational Behavior, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences,Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
22. Assistant Professor, department of sport behavioral and cognitive sciences, faculty of sport sciences and health, Shahid Beheshti University
3department of sport behavioral and cognitive sciences, faculty of sport sciences and health, Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract
Thalassemia major causes several disabilities in visual, motor and cognitive systems. Recent researches suggest that people with thalassemia major have some physiological and structural problems. Fine motor skills need proper cognitive and visual functions. The purpose of the present study was to compare the effect of visual, cognitive and motor interventions on fine motor skills of children with thalassemia major.
Participants were consisted of 43 children with thalassemia major and were assigned into three groups of visual (n=11), cognitive (n=11), motor (n=11) interventions and one control group (n=10) randomly. They were assessed with the short form of Bruininks- Oseretsky Test (BOT) before and after eight weeks of interventions as pre and post tests.
Findings: Repeated measure ANOVA was used to analyze data. The main outcome of the present study was that all interventions significantly improved fine motor skills of the individuals. However, the motor intervention was the best among them.
It can be concluded that all cognitive, visual and movement systems, such as hand-eye coordination or attention get involved in motor intervention and so it was better than the other interventions.
Participants were consisted of 43 children with thalassemia major and were assigned into three groups of visual (n=11), cognitive (n=11), motor (n=11) interventions and one control group (n=10) randomly. They were assessed with the short form of Bruininks- Oseretsky Test (BOT) before and after eight weeks of interventions as pre and post tests.
Findings: Repeated measure ANOVA was used to analyze data. The main outcome of the present study was that all interventions significantly improved fine motor skills of the individuals. However, the motor intervention was the best among them.
It can be concluded that all cognitive, visual and movement systems, such as hand-eye coordination or attention get involved in motor intervention and so it was better than the other interventions.
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