Habilitation of Executive Functions in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Patients through LEGO®-Based Therapy: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Congenital heart disease is defined as an abnormality in the cardiocirculatory structure or function. Various studies have shown that patients with this condition may present cognitive deficits. To compensate for this, several therapeutic strategies have been developed, among them, the LEGO® Educati...

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Veröffentlicht in:Healthcare (Basel) Jg. 10; H. 12; S. 2348
Hauptverfasser: Espinosa-Garamendi, Eduardo, Labra-Ruiz, Norma Angélica, Naranjo, Lizbeth, Chávez-Mejía, Claudia Andrea, Valenzuela-Alarcón, Erika, Mendoza-Torreblanca, Julieta Griselda
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Switzerland MDPI AG 23.11.2022
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Schlagworte:
Behavior
Cardiovascular disease
Care and treatment
Child psychotherapy
Children
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition disorders
Complications and side effects
Congenital diseases
Congenital heart disease
Construction toys
Diseases
Executive function
Executive function (Psychology)
Health aspects
Heart surgery
Intervention
Memory
Neuropsychology
Patients
Pediatrics
Quasi-experimental methods
Robots
Statistical analysis
Testing
Mexico
LEGO®-based therapy
congenital heart disease
cognitive habilitation
executive functions
RACHS1 scale
orbitomedial cortex
ISSN:2227-9032, 2227-9032
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Zusammenfassung:Congenital heart disease is defined as an abnormality in the cardiocirculatory structure or function. Various studies have shown that patients with this condition may present cognitive deficits. To compensate for this, several therapeutic strategies have been developed, among them, the LEGO® Education sets, which use the pedagogic enginery to modify cognitive function by didactic material based on mechanics and robotics principles. Accordingly, the goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of cognitive habilitation by using LEGO®-based therapy in pediatric congenital heart disease patients. This was a quasi-experimental study; eligible patients were identified, and their general data were obtained. In the treatment group, an initial evaluation with the neuropsychological BANFE-2 test was applied; then, once a week, the interventions were performed, with a final test at the end of the interventions. In the control group, after the initial evaluation, a second appointment was scheduled for the final evaluation. Our results show that >50% of children presented cognitive impairment; nevertheless, there was an overall improvement in treatment patients, showing a significant increase in BANFE scores in areas related to executive functions. LEGO®-based therapy may be useful to improve cognitive abilities; however, future research should be performed to strengthen the data.
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ISSN:2227-9032
2227-9032
DOI:10.3390/healthcare10122348