Evidence of training influence on infant manual behavior: a systematic review
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https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.v29.9425Keywords:
child development, infant, early intervention, motor skillsAbstract
Introduction: Researchers have widely investigated how interventions by means of training can improve manual behaviors in infants. However, no systematic review has been found on this topic. Objective: To analyze the quality of scientific evidence considering the methodological quality and level of evidence by type of study in research on training of object-directed manual behaviors in infants in the first 18 months of life. Methods: National Library of Medicine (PubMed/MEDLINE), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS), Virtual Health Library (BIREME/BVS), Science Direct, SciELO, and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) databases were used. Only clinical trials that assessed the benefits of manual object-directed training in infants and were published up to February 2018, in English, were included. The Cochrane Collaboration Model was adapted to extract bibliographical data from the articles and their methodological quality was assessed using the PEDro scale and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine’s Levels of Evidence. Results: Twenty one clinical trials were included. Studies investigated typically developing full-term infants, preterm infants, and infants at risk for autism spectrum disorders. Trainings were administered to infants by means of “sticky mittens” paradigm, task-specific practice, or contingency reinforcement. Most of the studies presented fair or poor methodological quality. Only studies that used task-specific active practice presented high methodological quality. Conclusions: The results indicate there is high quality evidence that task-specific training improves object-directed manual behaviors in typically developing infants and preterm infants in the first 2-4 months of life. Studies addressing infants with established diagnoses of developmental dysfunction are lacking.
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3. Corbetta D, Thelen E, Johnson K. Motor constraints on the development of perception-action matching in infant reaching. Infant Behav Dev. 2000;23(3):351-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-6383(01)00049-2
4. Gibson JJ. The ecological approach to visual perception. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986.
5. Libertus K, Landa RJ. Scaffolded reaching experiences encourage grasping activity in infants at high risk for autism. Front Psychol. 2014;5:1071. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01071
6. Needham A, Barrett T, Peterman K. A pickme-up for infants’ exploratory skills: early simulated experiences reaching for objects using “sticky mittens” enhances young infants’ object exploration skills. Infant Behav Dev. 2002;25(3):279-95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-6383(02)00097-8
7. Williams JL, Corbetta D, Guan Y. Learning to reach with “sticky” or “non-sticky” mittens: A tale of developmental trajectories. Infant Behav Dev. 2015;38:82-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2015.01.001
8. Cunha AB, Lobo MA, Kokkoni E, Galloway JC, Tudella E. Effect of short-term training on reaching behavior in infants: a randomized controlled clinical trial. J Mot Behav. 2015;48(2):132-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2015.1050549
9. Heathcock JC, Lobo M, Galloway JC. Movement training advances the emergence of reaching in infants born at less than 33 weeks of gestational age. Phys Ther. 2008;88(3):310-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20070145
10. Soares DA, van der Kamp J, Savelsbergh GJ, Tudella E. The effect of a short bout of practice on reaching behavior in late preterm infants at the onset of reaching: a randomized controlled trial. Res Dev Disabil. 2013;34(12):4546-58. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.09.028
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12. Needham A, Joh AS, Wiesen SE, Willians N. E?ects of Contingent Reinforcement of Actions on Infants’ Object-Directed Reaching. Infancy. 2014;19(5):496-517. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12058
13. Lobo MA, Galloway JC, Heathcock JC. Characterization and intervention for upper extremity exploration & reaching behaviors in infancy. J Hand Ther. 2015;28(2):114-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jht.2014.12.003
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23. Carvalho RP, Tudella E, Savelsbergh GJP. Spatio-temporal parameters in infant’s reaching movements are influenced by body orientation. Infant Behav Dev. 2007;30(1):26-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.07.006
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25. Libertus K, Joh AS, Needham AW. Motor training at 3 months affects object exploration 12 months later. Dev Sci. 2016;19(6):1058-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12370
26. Lobo MA, Galloway JC. Postural and object-oriented experiences advance early reaching, object exploration, and means-end behavior. Child Dev. 2008;79(6):1869-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01231.x
27. Needham AW, Wiesen SE, Hejazi JN, Libertus K, Christopher C. Characteristics of brief sticky mittens training that lead to increases in object exploration. J Exp Child Psychol. 2017;164:209-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.009
28. Lobo MA, Galloway JC, Savelsbergh GJP. General and task-related experiences affect early object interaction. Child Dev. 2004;75(4):1268-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00738.x
29. Campos AC, Costa CS, Savelsbergh GJ, Rocha NA. Infants with Down syndrome and their interactions with objects: development of exploratory actions after reaching onset. Res Dev Disabil. 2013;34(6):1906- 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.03.001
30. Silva FPS, Rocha NACF, Tudella E. Can size and rigidity of objects influence infant’s proximal and distal adjustments of reaching?. Rev Bras Fisioter. 2011;15(1):37-44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-35552011000100003
31. Dusing SC, Lobo MA, Lee HM, Galloway JC. Intervention in the first weeks of life for infants born late preterm: A case series. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2013;25(2):194-203. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PEP.0b013e3182888b86
32. Petrini JR, Dias T, McCormick MC, Massolo ML, Green NS, Escobar GJ. Increased risk of adverse neurological development for late preterm infants. J Pediatr. 2009;154(2):169-76. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.08.020
33. Libertus K, Needham A. Teach to reach: The effects of active vs. passive reaching experiences on action and perception. Vision Res. 2010;50(24):2750-7. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.001
34. Cunha AB, Woollacott M, Tudella E. Influence of specific training on spatiotemporal parameters at the onset of goal-directed reaching in infants: a controlled clinical trial. Braz J Phys Ther. 2013;17(4):409-17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-35552013005000099
35. Sommerville JA, Woodward AL, Needham A. Action experience alters 3-month-old infants’ perception of others’ actions. Cognition. 2005;96(1):B1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004
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37. Cunha AB, Soares DA, Ferro AM, Tudella E. Effect of training at different body positions on proximal and distal reaching adjustments at the onset of goal-directed reaching: a controlled clinical trial. Motor Control. 2013;17(2):123-44.
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39. Grimes DA, Schulz KF. Bias and causal associations in observational research. Lancet. 2002;359:248-52. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(02)07451-2
40. Ozonoff S, Young GS, Carter A, Messinger D, Yirmiya N, Zwaigenbaum L, et al. Recurrence risk for autism spectrum disorders: a Baby Siblings Research Consortium study. Pediatrics. 2011;128(3):488-95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-2825
41. March of Dimes, PMNCH, Save the Children, WHO. Born too soon: the global action report on preterm birth. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2012.
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