Family Centered Occupational Therapy on Play Skills and Participation of Children With ASD

NCT ID: NCT02795611

Last Updated: 2017-12-28

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

23 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-05-31

Study Completion Date

2017-12-31

Brief Summary

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Play skills and participation of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been restricted by their core symptoms, resulting in heightened parenting stress and affected family daily life. This research aims to improve play skills and participation of children with ASD through 'family-centered occupational therapy', thereby leading to positive outcome for not only the child but also the whole family.

Detailed Description

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Play skills and participation of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been restricted by their core symptoms, resulting in heightened parenting stress and affected family daily life. This research aims to improve play skills and participation of children with ASD through 'family-centered occupational therapy', thereby leading to positive outcome for not only the child but also the whole family.

60 children age 2\~6 with ASD will be recruited in our research, and divided into either experimental or control groups according to primary caregivers' (will be referred to as caregivers thereafter) decision whether to receive treatment in our hospital (NTUH) or not. Caregivers' decision is based on the convenience of transportation to NTUH. The children with ASD in the experimental group will receive family-centered occupational therapy three times a week for 6 months. The intervention goals, determined by discussing with caregivers, will often be the most important aspect of play skill and participation of children with ASD, which concern caregivers most. Caregivers will be equipped with the skills of guiding children with ASD in play and participation in their daily life. The outcome assessments will include : (1) The child's developmental skills and the severity of ASD as measured with Psychoeducational Profile, third edition (PEP-3) and Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) respectively, (2) the child's play skill and participation as measured with Goal Attainment Scale (GAS), Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale-Chinese version (VABS-C) and Revised Knox Preschool Play Scale (RKPPS) respectively, (3) Family related factors as measured with Parenting Stress Index Short Form (PSI/SF), Family Outcomes Survey (FOS), Family Empowerment Scale (FES) and Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME).

Pre- and post-intervention comparison on the outcome measures within the experimental group, and group comparison on the outcome measures will be conducted to examine the effectiveness of family-centered occupational therapy. Results of the study will provide empirical evidence for evidence-based occupational therapy practice in the field of play skills and participation of children with ASD.

Conditions

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Keywords

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Family-centered Autism spectrum disorder Occupational therapy Participation Play

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Caregivers Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Treatment group

Patients who receive 'family-centered occupational therapy' in our hospital

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Family-centered occupational therapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Caregivers will be equipped with the skills of guiding children with ASD in play and participation in their daily life.

Control group 1

Patients who receive regular occupational therapy in our hospital

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

regular occupational therapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

regular occupational therapy

Control group 2

Patients who don't receive intervention in our hospital

Group Type OTHER

intervention done outside our hospital

Intervention Type OTHER

intervention done outside our hospital

Interventions

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Family-centered occupational therapy

Caregivers will be equipped with the skills of guiding children with ASD in play and participation in their daily life.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

regular occupational therapy

regular occupational therapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

intervention done outside our hospital

intervention done outside our hospital

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patient diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder
* age 2\~6 years old

Exclusion Criteria

* patient with other disease, like seizure or other systemic disease
Minimum Eligible Age

2 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

6 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Taiwan University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Mei-Hui Tseng, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

National Taiwan University School of Occupational Therapy

Locations

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National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, Zhongzheng, Taiwan

Site Status

Countries

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Taiwan

Other Identifiers

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201509008RINC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id