Case Westerm Reserve University, Department of Psychological Sciences, United States.
Case Westerm Reserve University, Department of Psychological Sciences, United States.
Res Dev Disabil. 2021 Jan;108:103820. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103820. Epub 2020 Dec 9.
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is characterized by decreased social and emotional functioning. Due to the low base-rate of children with PWS, developing behavioral interventions for individuals with PWS is faced with the challenge of enrolling enough local participants for adequate study of behavioral intervention efficacy. However, these types of studies are greatly needed in PWS and telehealth methodology may be useful in addressing this challenge. This article is a follow-up to a previous feasibility study (Dimitropoulos et al., 2017) and reports on the preliminary efficacy of a telehealth intervention delivered to 15 children, ages 6-12, with PWS. Overall, children demonstrated significantly improved cognitive and affective processes in pretend play and general cognitive flexibility following the 6-week remote intervention. These findings are limited by the lack of control group and small sample size which should be considered when interpreting results. Overall, these preliminary findings point to the potential role pretend play can serve as a means of enacting cognitive and behavioral change via telehealth.
普拉德-威利综合征（PWS）的特征是社交和情感功能下降。由于患有 PWS 的儿童基数较低，因此为患有 PWS 的个体开发行为干预措施面临着招募足够多的本地参与者以充分研究行为干预效果的挑战。然而，PWS 非常需要这些类型的研究，远程医疗方法可能有助于解决这一挑战。本文是对之前的一项可行性研究（Dimitropoulos 等人，2017 年）的后续研究，并报告了对 15 名 6-12 岁患有 PWS 的儿童进行远程医疗干预的初步效果。总的来说，在经过 6 周的远程干预后，儿童在假装游戏和一般认知灵活性方面的认知和情感过程显著改善。这些发现受到缺乏对照组和样本量小的限制，在解释结果时应考虑这些限制。总的来说，这些初步发现表明，假装游戏可以通过远程医疗作为实施认知和行为改变的一种手段。
