StudentsNCT05706142
Determination of the Effects of Motor Imagery on Learning Infant Massage
A study testing Motor Imagery Education in people with Students, run by Eastern Mediterranean University at 2 sites in 2 countries.
Trial summary
Motor imagery is the mental rehearsal of simple or complex motor movements in which no clear body movement occurs. It can also be defined as the mental simulation of movement without revealing any real motor movement. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 25 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Students
- What is being tested?
- Motor Imagery Education
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 24 participants
- Where
- 2 sitesin 2 countries
- Study dates
- 10 Nov 2022to 15 Mar 2023
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 25 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult
Who may be able to join
- Individuals over the age of 18
- To be taking the Pediatric Rehabilitation course for the first time in the Fall semester of the academic year 2022-2023 at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation.
Who cannot join
- Having serious vision and hearing problems,
- Having serious attention problems,
- Having a musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, or other disease severe enough to preclude participation in the study.
- Prior participation in any kind of motor imagery training
Trial locations and contacts
2 sites in 2 countries.
2 sites in 2 countries
Turkey (Türkiye)1 site
Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department
Mersin, Famagusta, 99450
About this study
Official title: Motor Imagery on Learning Infant Massage
Motor imagery is the mental rehearsal of simple or complex motor movements in which no clear body movement occurs. It can also be defined as the mental simulation of movement without revealing any real motor movement. Studies have shown that similar brain regions are activated during the performance of the movement and the imagery of the movement. According to the results obtained from advanced imaging techniques, it has been reported that activations occur in similar areas during motor imagery and physical performance, including brain areas such as premotor areas, parietal lobe, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate cortex, and cerebellum. When the literature is examined, it has been seen that motor imagery applications are used in many different areas. In 2021, the effect of motor imagery training on students' motor imagery levels and practice in the education of medical school students by Collet et al. was investigated. As a result of the training, it was reported that motor skills improved and it strengthened the learning of medical skills.
Read the detailed description
Infantile colic was first defined in 1954 by Wessel et al. The incidence of infantile colic varies between 10-30%. There was no study showing the general colic frequency in Turkey, however, in a study conducted in the Eastern Anatolia Region in 2005, the incidence of infantile colic was reported as 51.1%. Although the causes of colic are not fully explained, food allergy or lactose intolerance, hypersensitivity, abnormal peristalsis or excessive gas, tension and stress in the family, swallowing air during bottle feeding or excessive crying, gastro-esophageal reflux, low birth weight, psychosocial It is thought that factors such as problems cause colic.
Thus, in physiotherapy education, there are many practical lectures. In the recent years, motor imagery has been used to teach exercises to the patients who need physiotherapy like stroke patients. Thus, it is considered that motor imagery can be used in the education and in the literature, there are papers which investigate the effects of motor imagery among the students of nursing and medicine. In conclusion, the aim is to see whether this method can be used as a new teaching method among physiotherapy students, thus this may bring the students more familiar for the use in their future clinical practices.
- Conditions
- Students
- Being tested
- Motor Imagery Education
- Keywords
- physiotherapy and rehabilitation
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Motor Imagery EducationOther
Within the scope of motor imagery training, a presentation will be made to the students of pediatric rehabilitation lecture in the intervention group about what motor imagery is. "PETTLEP" model will be used for imagery training. In this model, imagery training will be prepared in accordance with our purpose, taking into account the physical, environmental, time, task, learning, emotion and personal subheadings. In the training sessions, relaxation exercises will be given for 5 minutes first. After the relaxation exercises, special "colic massage" imagery training will be given to newborns for 10 minutes. The massage will also be shown as practically at class.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Control group | No intervention | No motor imagery will be shown to these students. The same massage will only be shown as practically at class. |
| Intervention Group | Experimental | Within the scope of motor imagery training, a presentation will be made to the students of pediatric rehabilitation lecture in the intervention group about what motor imagery is. "PETTLEP" model will be used for imagery training. In this model, imagery training will be prepared in accordance with our purpose, taking into account the physical, environmental, time, task, learning, emotion and personal subheadings. In the training sessions, relaxation exercises will be given for 5 minutes first. After the relaxation exercises, special "colic massage" imagery training will be given to newborns for 10 minutes. The massage will also be shown as practically at class. Receives: Other: Motor Imagery Education |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Motion Imagery Questionnaire
The Motion Imagery Questionnaire-3 is an adaptation of the Motion Imagery Questionnaire. It consists of 3 subscales and a total of 12 items evaluating external visual imagery, internal visual imagery and kinesthetic imagery. Before starting the evaluation, the participants are given the necessary information about the survey. Each of the 12 tasks in the questionnaire is performed physically first, then the participant returns to the starting position and visualization is performed according to the desired imagery type. The scoring is between 1 and 7, with 1 point: very difficult to see/feel, 7 points: very easy to see/feel. While calculating the score, the internal visual imagery, external visual imagery and kinesthetic imagery scores are added separately and divided by 4 and averaged. Higher scores show better imagery ability.
Measured: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
Secondary outcomes (4)
Chronometry for colic massage on baby doll
Individuals participating in the study are asked to perform colic massage actively on baby dolls. They are asked to record this time in seconds.
Measured: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
Mental Chronometry for colic massage
They are asked to visualize the colic massage using internal and then external perspective. The time visualised is recorded in seconds.
Measured: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
Proportion between real and mental chronometry
The proportion is taken between the real massage and imagined massage.
Measured: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
Qualitative effects
The students in the intervention group will be asked to reply five open ended questions about the effects of motor imagery on learning colic massage for infants. The Microsoft Teams will be used for voice record with the feature of "speech to test".
Measured: at two weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted31 Jan 2023
- Study start10 Nov 2022
- Primary completion20 Feb 2023
- Study completion15 Mar 2023
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for StudentsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 24 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Eastern Mediterranean University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Zehra Güçhan Topcu, Assist.Prof., Principal investigator, Lecturer at university
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05706142
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- ETK00-2022-0275
- Status last verified
- Mar 2023
- First submitted
- 11 Jan 2023
- Last updated
- 17 Mar 2023
- Results posted
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 17 Mar 2023. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Motor Imagery on Learning Infant Massage
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05706142
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- ETK00-2022-0275
- Conditions
- Students
- Keywords
- physiotherapy and rehabilitation
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 24 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Eastern Mediterranean UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 10 Nov 2022 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 20 Feb 2023 (actual)
- Study completion
- 15 Mar 2023 (actual)
- First posted
- 31 Jan 2023 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Motor imagery is the mental rehearsal of simple or complex motor movements in which no clear body movement occurs. It can also be defined as the mental simulation of movement without revealing any real motor movement. Studies have shown that similar brain regions are activated during the performance of the movement and the imagery of the movement. According to the results obtained from advanced imaging techniques, it has been reported that activations occur in similar areas during motor imagery and physical performance, including brain areas such as premotor areas, parietal lobe, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate cortex, and cerebellum. When the literature is examined, it has been seen that motor imagery applications are used in many different areas. In 2021, the effect of motor imagery training on students' motor imagery levels and practice in the education of medical school students by Collet et al. was investigated. As a result of the training, it was reported that motor skills improved and it strengthened the learning of medical skills.
Detailed description
Infantile colic was first defined in 1954 by Wessel et al. The incidence of infantile colic varies between 10-30%. There was no study showing the general colic frequency in Turkey, however, in a study conducted in the Eastern Anatolia Region in 2005, the incidence of infantile colic was reported as 51.1%. Although the causes of colic are not fully explained, food allergy or lactose intolerance, hypersensitivity, abnormal peristalsis or excessive gas, tension and stress in the family, swallowing air during bottle feeding or excessive crying, gastro-esophageal reflux, low birth weight, psychosocial It is thought that factors such as problems cause colic.
Thus, in physiotherapy education, there are many practical lectures. In the recent years, motor imagery has been used to teach exercises to the patients who need physiotherapy like stroke patients. Thus, it is considered that motor imagery can be used in the education and in the literature, there are papers which investigate the effects of motor imagery among the students of nursing and medicine. In conclusion, the aim is to see whether this method can be used as a new teaching method among physiotherapy students, thus this may bring the students more familiar for the use in their future clinical practices.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Control group | No intervention | –No motor imagery will be shown to these students. The same massage will only be shown as practically at class. |
| Intervention Group | Experimental | Other: Motor Imagery EducationWithin the scope of motor imagery training, a presentation will be made to the students of pediatric rehabilitation lecture in the intervention group about what motor imagery is. "PETTLEP" model will be used for imagery training. In this model, imagery training will be prepared in accordance with our purpose, taking into account the physical, environmental, time, task, learning, emotion and personal subheadings. In the training sessions, relaxation exercises will be given for 5 minutes first. After the relaxation exercises, special "colic massage" imagery training will be given to newborns for 10 minutes. The massage will also be shown as practically at class. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 25 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Individuals over the age of 18
- To be taking the Pediatric Rehabilitation course for the first time in the Fall semester of the academic year 2022-2023 at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation.
Key exclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Having serious vision and hearing problems,
- Having serious attention problems,
- Having a musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, or other disease severe enough to preclude participation in the study.
- Prior participation in any kind of motor imagery training
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Imagery EducationWithin the scope of motor imagery training, a presentation will be made to the students of pediatric rehabilitation lecture in the intervention group about what motor imagery is. "PETTLEP" model will be used for imagery training. In this model, imagery training will be prepared in accordance with our purpose, taking into account the physical, environmental, time, task, learning, emotion and personal subheadings. In the training sessions, relaxation exercises will be given for 5 minutes first. After the relaxation exercises, special "colic massage" imagery training will be given to newborns for 10 minutes. The massage will also be shown as practically at class. | Other | Intervention Group |
Primary outcome
Motion Imagery Questionnaire
Time frame: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
The Motion Imagery Questionnaire-3 is an adaptation of the Motion Imagery Questionnaire. It consists of 3 subscales and a total of 12 items evaluating external visual imagery, internal visual imagery and kinesthetic imagery. Before starting the evaluation, the participants are given the necessary information about the survey. Each of the 12 tasks in the questionnaire is performed physically first, then the participant returns to the starting position and visualization is performed according to the desired imagery type. The scoring is between 1 and 7, with 1 point: very difficult to see/feel, 7 points: very easy to see/feel. While calculating the score, the internal visual imagery, external visual imagery and kinesthetic imagery scores are added separately and divided by 4 and averaged. Higher scores show better imagery ability.
4 secondary outcomes
Chronometry for colic massage on baby doll
Time frame: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
Mental Chronometry for colic massage
Time frame: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
Proportion between real and mental chronometry
Time frame: change from baseline at two weeks study duration
Qualitative effects
Time frame: at two weeks
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 17 Mar 2023.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Zehra Güçhan Topcu, Assist.Prof. principal investigator
Lecturer at university
2 sites in 2 countries: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Motor Imagery Education in people with Students, run by Eastern Mediterranean University at 2 sites in 2 countries.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 17 Mar 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 2 sites in Cyprus, Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Motion Imagery Questionnaire (time frame: change from baseline at two weeks study duration). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 17 Mar 2023.