UAB AIM Virtual Magic Camp

UAB Arts in Medicine's Evaluation of a Virtual Magic Camp

The magic camp for children with disabilities at UAB has been conducted yearly since 2018. This year, because of the Covid-19, the magic camp will be conducted online. The virtual magic camp will start in the beginning of June . It will run for 4 weeks. After one cohort, there will be another cohort starts in the beginning of July . Each cohort will have about 30 children with disabilities. Two occupational therapy graduate students will teach each child via Zoom to learn magic hand trick 3 times a week, one hour each. No studies evaluate the psychological benefits of learning magic tricks via online in children with disabilities. Therefore, this study is to evaluate the psychological being of the children participants after completing a virtual magic camp.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Autism
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Autism Research

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 18

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Alabama
    • Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35205
      • UAB Alys Sthepens Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 9 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Participants will be with other individuals who do not have ASD.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have some form of ASD

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Magic Camp Session #1; Children ages 9-18	Behavioral: Autism Research; Measuring aspects such as self esteem, social skills, and social anxieties.
Magic Camp Session #2; Children ages 9-18	Behavioral: Autism Research; Measuring aspects such as self esteem, social skills, and social anxieties.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self Esteem	Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale: The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) consists of 10 items quantifying participants' feelings about themselves on a 4-point scale (1=strongly agree; 4=strongly disagree). After taking into consideration the five reversed scored items, responses are totaled to form the summation score, ranging from 10 to 40, with the larger scores indicating higher self-esteem.	2 weeks
Strengths & Difficulties	SDQ is a screening tool for emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents aged 2 to 17 years (Stone, Otten, Engels, Vermulst, & Janssens, 2010). SDQ includes 25 items across 5 subscales. Each item is rated on a 3-point scale with 0=not true, 1=somewhat true, and 2=certainly true. Responses are totaled to form the summation score, ranging from 0-50, with higher scores indicating more emotional and behavioral problems.	2 weeks
Social Anxiety	The SAS is designed to assess feelings of social anxiety (avoidance, fears, or worries) experienced by children and adolescents in the context of their peer relations (La Greca & Lopez, 1998; La Greca & Stone, 1993). The SAS has 18 items divided into three subscales. Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale according to how much each item characterizes the specific feeling indicated (1 = not at all, 5 = all the time). Items from each subscale are summed so that high scores reflect greater levels of social anxiety.	2 weeks
Social Skills	The SSIS is designed to measure various aspects of social skills in children and adolescents who are suspected of having significant social difficulties (Gresham & Elliott, 2008). The Social Skills domain has 46 items and consists of seven subscales. Items are rated on a 4-point Likert scale by indicating how true each social skill is (0 = not true, 3 = very true), with lower scores indicating poorer social skill.	2 weeks
Social Responses	The SRS-2 is designed to measure various dimensions of interpersonal behavior, communication, and repetitive/stereotypic behavior associated with autism occurring in natural social settings (Constantino & Gruber, 2012). The SRS-2 is comprised of 65 items which are rated on a 4-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 = not true, to 4 = almost always true. Higher scores reflect a greater degree of social impairment.	2 weeks
Parental Stress	The SIPA is a 112-item measure assessing stress within the parent-adolescent relationship (Sheras et al., 1998). The first 90 items have response options on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = not sure, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree) and the remaining 22 items are yes (1) /no (0) questions pertaining to stressful life events the respondent may have experienced. Higher scores indicate higher levels of stress.	2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hon K. Yuen, PhD

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 7, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 31, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): August 31, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 7, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 7, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): April 12, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 31, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 29, 2022
• Last Verified: August 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 300005328

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No