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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 ●     
Eligibility screen Individual ●            
Consent (parents) Individual ●            
Inclusion Individual ●            
Randomization Individual   ●           
INTERVENTIONS/CONTROL (3*30 minutes/week)
 Whole-body movements Group (6 subjects)    ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●   
 Part-body movements Group (6 subjects)    ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●   
 Control Group (app. 12 subjects)    ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●   
ASESSMENTS
 Reading skills
  Word reading with pictures Individual   ●          ● ●
  Word reading without pictures Individual   ●          ● ●
  Naming of letter sounds Individual   ●          ● ●
  Letter Fluency Individual   ●          ● ●
  Letter test 2 ½ class   ●          ● ●
   Word reading test 1 ½ class   ●          ● ●
Knowledge of trained letter- sound correspondences ½ class   ●          ● ●
 Cognitive performance
  Digit Span Individual   ●          ● ●
  N-back Individual   ●          ● ●
 Motor skills
  Flamingo Balance test ½ class   ●          ● ●
  9-hole pegboard Individual   ●          ● ●
 Compliance data
  Presence Individual    ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●   
  Active participation Individual    ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●   
  Session completion Group    ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●   
  Compliance to protocol Group    ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●● ●●●   
 Intrinsic motivation Individual     ●   ●   ●   ●   
  1. Adapted from the SPIRIT guideline (Chan et al., 2013)
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