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Table 1 Schedule of enrolment, interventions and assessments in the PLAYMORE study

From: Motor-enriched learning for improving pre-reading and word recognition skills in preschool children aged 5–6 years – study protocol for the PLAYMORE randomized controlled trial

  

STUDY PERIOD

Activity or assessment

School/class /group /individual level

Recruite-ment

Baseline

Intervention period (8 weeks)

Post

3-month follow-up

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Contact to schools

School

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Eligibility screen

Individual

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Consent (parents)

Individual

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Inclusion

Individual

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Randomization

Individual

 

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INTERVENTIONS/CONTROL (3*30 minutes/week)

 Whole-body movements

Group (6 subjects)

  

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 Part-body movements

Group (6 subjects)

  

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 Control

Group (app. 12 subjects)

  

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ASESSMENTS

 Reading skills

  Word reading with pictures

Individual

 

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  Word reading without pictures

Individual

 

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  Naming of letter sounds

Individual

 

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  Letter Fluency

Individual

 

●

        

●

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  Letter test 2

½ class

 

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   Word reading test 1

½ class

 

●

        

●

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Knowledge of trained letter- sound correspondences

½ class

 

●

        

●

●

 Cognitive performance

  Digit Span

Individual

 

●

        

●

●

  N-back

Individual

 

●

        

●

●

 Motor skills

  Flamingo Balance test

½ class

 

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●

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  9-hole pegboard

Individual

 

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●

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 Compliance data

  Presence

Individual

  

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  Active participation

Individual

  

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  Session completion

Group

  

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  Compliance to protocol

Group

  

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 Intrinsic motivation

Individual

   

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●

 

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  1. Adapted from the SPIRIT guideline (Chan et al., 2013)
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