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Behavioral Intervention

Smartphone-App Parent Training in Pivotal Response Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder

N/A

Waitlist Available

Led By Ty Vernon

Research Sponsored by University of California, Santa Barbara

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be younger than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up baseline, 8 weeks (intervention completion), 16 weeks (follow-up)

Awards & highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trial tests a smartphone app that helps parents of young children with autism learn effective treatment strategies. The app teaches parents how to improve their child's language and social skills using fun, play-based lessons. By making this training available on smartphones, families everywhere can access high-quality autism treatment regardless of where they live or their financial situation.

Eligible Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism
Parenting

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ baseline, 8 weeks (intervention completion), 16 weeks (follow-up)

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~baseline, 8 weeks (intervention completion), 16 weeks (follow-up)

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline, 8 weeks (intervention completion), 16 weeks (follow-up) for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary study objectives

Change from Baseline in Parent Fidelity of Implementation of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks

Secondary study objectives

Change from Baseline in Frequency of Child Vocalizations/Word Use during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks.

Change from Baseline in MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI), Level I Short Form (Total Score) at 16 weeks

Change from Baseline in Percentage of Child Positive Affect during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks.

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Other study objectives

Change from Baseline in Percentage of Child Eye Contact during Behaviorally Coded Parent-Child Intervention Videos at 8 weeks, 16 weeks.

Parent Adherence to Treatment and Competence Measure

Scale of Treatment Perceptions (Total Score)

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Group I: Smartphone App without Video Self-Scoring FunctionalityExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

In this condition, after parents video-record their delivery of the intervention, they watch their own video but do not score their performance.

Group II: Smartphone App with Video Self-Scoring FunctionalityExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

In this condition, after parents video-record their delivery of the intervention, they watch their video and are taught to score their own performance/fidelity through question prompts built into the app. When they are finished, the app will offer feedback and follow-up lessons based on the PRT strategies they have not demonstrated consistently.

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Smartphone-App Parent Training in Pivotal Response Treatment

2021

N/A

~50

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