Huang Hsiang-Han, Chen Chia-Ling
Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Joint Appointment with Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Early Intervention, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Res Dev Disabil. 2017 Feb;61:172-180. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2017.01.002. Epub 2017 Jan 10.
To examine the effects of ride-on car (ROC) training versus conventional therapy on mobility and social function in young children with disabilities in a hospital-based environment.
Twenty young children with disabilities, aged 1-3 years, were recruited. The treatment group (n=10) received ROC training of 2h/session, 2 sessions/week for a total of 9 weeks in the hospital environment. The control group (n=10) received conventional therapy alone. Assessments included the Chinese version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory and the Parenting Stress Index.
After a 9-week intervention, the treatment group showed improvements in mobility and social function, whereas the control group showed improvements in social function alone. Four children in the treatment group had clinically meaningful changes in mobility and 3 in social function, as compared to 2 and 1, respectively, in the control group.
This is the first group study that demonstrated the potential benefits of ROC training on mobility and social function in young children with disabilities in the hospital environment. Future studies should include a larger sample size to detect any differences between ROC training and conventional therapy.
在医院环境中，研究乘用汽车（ROC）训练与传统疗法对残疾幼儿运动能力和社交功能的影响。
招募了20名1至3岁的残疾幼儿。治疗组（n = 10）在医院环境中接受每次2小时、每周2次、共9周的ROC训练。对照组（n = 10）仅接受传统疗法。评估包括中文版的《儿童残疾评定量表》和《育儿压力指数》。
经过9周的干预，治疗组在运动能力和社交功能方面均有改善，而对照组仅在社交功能方面有所改善。治疗组中有4名儿童在运动能力方面有临床意义的变化，3名在社交功能方面有变化，相比之下，对照组分别为2名和1名。
这是第一项表明在医院环境中，ROC训练对残疾幼儿运动能力和社交功能有潜在益处的分组研究。未来的研究应纳入更大的样本量，以发现ROC训练与传统疗法之间的任何差异。
