Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Therapeutic for Children With Autism

Официальное название

Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Based Therapeutic for Improving Socialization Outcomes in Autistic Children, A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Обзор

The following study aims to assess the efficacy of the game-based digital therapeutic, GuessWhat, in improving adaptive socialization skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). GuessWhat is a mobile application (available for free for iOS and Android) which contains a suite of games: pro-social charades, emotion guessing, and quiz. Participant families will use their personal smartphones to download the app and play it with their child according to a predetermined regimen.

Подробное описание

The following study aims to understand the efficacy of the digital therapeutic, GuessWhat, in improving socialization outcomes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) after regular use over 8 weeks. We will use a cross-over, waitlist control design to examine outcomes after 8 weeks. GuessWhat is a mobile application (available for free for iOS and Android) which contains a suite of games: pro-social charades, emotion guessing, and quiz. Participant families will use their personal smartphones to download the app and play it with their child according to a predetermined regimen. The study will enroll parents who are at least 18 years old and have a child between 3 and 12 years old with a formal ASD diagnosis. Parents will be asked to complete two clinical outcome measure questionnaires immediately prior to and up to 1 week after playing GuessWhat with their child 3 times per week for 8 weeks.

Вмешательства

• Устройство Charades based mobile digital therapeutic
  The mobile app is a charades style game and app that engages parent and child in fluid social interaction where the parent must guess what the child is acting out based on the prompt shown on the phone screen. Participants will use their own personal phone to download the study app. Parents are asked to play with their child 15 minutes 3-4 times per week for 8 weeks.

Первичные конечные точки

• Change in parent reported socialization based on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales 3rd Edition (VABS-3) Parent/Caregiver Socialization Subscale, from baseline to week 8 [Срок оценки: Baseline (Week 0), Week 8]

Вторичные конечные точки (2)

• Change in Parental Stress Scale - from baseline to week 8 [Срок оценки: Baseline (Week 0), Week 8]
• Change in Emotion Recognition from baseline to week 8 [Срок оценки: Baseline (Week 0), Week 8]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• Parent who is at least 18 years old of child with autism.
• Child with autism is between 3 and 12 years old at time of baseline data collection.
• A professional diagnosis of Autism that is able to be confirmed by negative score on a machine learning based algorithm using items from Mobile Autism Risk Assessment and video based classifier or by a copy of diagnostic report.

Критерии исключения

• Parent is unable to read the app in the offered languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
• Parent does not have an Android or iOS smartphone compatible with GuessWhat App.
• Child has additional psychiatric or neurologic diagnoses including genetic syndromes or epilepsy in addition to autism.

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Нет

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Перекрёстный дизайн

Маскирование

Простое слепое

Основная цель

Лечение

Центры проведения

США · 1 центр

• Stanford University — Stanford

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT06058104 · 60181-Stanford

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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