Rehabilitation Including Structured Active Play for Preschoolers With Cancer (RePlay)-Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children diagnosed with cancer experience muscle weakness and impaired physical function caused by treatment and related immobility. The situation forces them into a negative cycle of diminished participation in physical and leisure activities and isolation from peers; inhibiting the natural development of social and gross motor skills. This manuscript presents a protocol for a study that explores the effects of using structured active play to maintain preschoolers' age specific gross motor function and social and personal skills while undertaking intensive cancer treatment.

Methods

The study is a two-arm, superiority randomized controlled trial with an intervention and a control group designed to evaluate the effects of a structured active play intervention on gr

SUBMITTER: Pouplier A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9124960 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature