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Program Intensive Habilitation (PIH) for Young Children With Early Brain Damage
Sponsor: Sorlandet Hospital HF
Summary
By longitudinal, prospective research in children with neurodisabilities including severe motor impairments and their parents to explore the beneficial effects of participating in an intensive habilitation program on the child's adaptive functioning and parental empowerment in order to treat and reduce the consequences of early brain damage.
Official title: Evaluation of a Norwegian Model of an Intensive Habilitation Program for Young Children With Early Brain Damage - a Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
2 Years - 7 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
90
Start Date
2021-10-10
Completion Date
2025-12-31
Last Updated
2025-05-21
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Program Intensified Habilitation
The program is based on a holistic and family-centered concept, which acknowledges parents as experts on their child's abilities and needs. The program involves both parents and local professionals, and includes goal setting and goal-directed treatment targeted to the needs of the individual child. The program lasts for about one year and contains three in-patient group sessions over 2 weeks. In between the children are receiving individualized home training programs at home and in pre-school/kindergarten. The children train on a daily basis, both during the inpatient sessions and in the home setting.
Habilitation as usual
When the participants are not joining the study year containing the intervention program, they will be offered habilitation services "as usual" administered by the primary health care services in the local community.
Locations (1)
Sørlandet Hospital
Kristiansand, Norway