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Improving Barriers to Care Access for Children With Autism and Related Needs Via Telehealth for Evaluation, Care Navigating, and Caregiver Coaching

No phase Interventional Autism Spectrum Disorder

For patients and families

In plain language

An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.

What is being studied
The protocol lists: NDBI.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder. Basic parameters: from 1 year · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
United States
Next step
Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →

Overview

The objectives of the current project are to develop and implement training with community providers to evaluate a supplemental parent coaching intervention delivered via telehealth to improve child communication and behavioral outcomes, parental stress outcomes, and to investigate telehealth models to reach children in geographically dispersed or highly mobile locations and/or from military connected families.

Interventions

  • Other NDBI
    The NDBI strategies (e.g., behavioral principles such as reinforcement) embedded within family-centered routines will be used to target child communication, social reciprocity, and parental responsivity. Collateral effects of the supplemental treatment package will be observed in terms of parental stress/efficacy and family quality of life as well. NDBI strategies and methodology provide a powerful tool to increase (and maintain via reinforcement) adaptive behaviors by teaching new skills and pr

Primary outcome measures

  • Change in Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC) [Time frame: Week 12]
  • Change in Repetitive Behavior Scale for Early Childhood [Time frame: Week 12]
  • Change in Autism Impact Measure [Time frame: Week 12]
  • Change in Autism Family Experience Questionnaire [Time frame: Week 12]
  • Change in Measure of NDBI Strategy Implementation-Caregiver Change [Time frame: Week 12]
  • Measure Fidelity [Time frame: Week 12]
  • Provider Knowledge Gain [Time frame: Week 12]

Eligibility criteria

Provider Inclusion Criteria:

  • Providers to participate who are in "lead" or supervising roles (e.g., clinical supervisors, lead therapists, level II/level I EIDBI providers),
  • Participating providers are encouraged to have a master's degree or higher, be level I, or serve as a level II provider with established experience (e.g.,supporting families who speak another language or be certified by a tribal government) however, this decision is up to the participating organization

Child/Caregiver Inclusion Criteria:

  • Child between ages 1 to 5
  • Waiting for either ASD diagnosis or intervention,
  • At least one caregiver (approved by the parent) willing to participate
  • Ability to complete approximately three, 30 min sessions over 12 weeks and to complete pre and post study measures
  • Child may not be currently receiving intensive (10 or more hours a week) or early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI), but may be on a waitlist for these services, and can be enrolled in Early Childhood Special Education services Parts B and C, and auxiliary services such as speech, physical, and occupational therapy.

Child/Caregiver Exclusion Criteria:

  • Children will be assessed through an eligibility screener to determine if they have challenging behavior that may be dangerous. Families will be assessed to determine eligibility through a screener, several of the questions will be aimed to identify challenging behavior severity, behaviors including topographies such as eye gouging and other forms of severe self-injury or aggression that cause significant or dangerous tissue damage (e.g., such as breaking the skin, drawing blood, open wounds that could be infected, or leaves a contusion, visits to an emergency room or hospitalization due to challenging behavior) to a child or others may be considered too severe to participate in the study.
  • Families will also be asked if a participating caregiver is pregnant, if they indicate yes, they will still be eligible to participate with their child, but certain activities may be skipped if the child engages in challenging behavior, such as aggressive behavior.

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Allocation
Randomized
Model
Crossover
Masking
Double blind
Primary purpose
Treatment

Study locations

United States · 1 center
  • University of Minnesota — Minneapolis

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07520838 · ICI-2024-33129

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗