Parent Skills Training for Families of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

NCT ID: NCT03864289

Last Updated: 2022-03-31

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-03-15
• Study Completion Date: 2022-03-14

Brief Summary

The study is focused on helping parents master the basic intervention skills and evaluate the effectiveness of this parental training style for children with autism spectrum disorder in China.

Detailed Description

The investigators designed a set of parental training curriculum about early intervention.

The curriculum consists of three units: (1) Delivery of theoretical intervention knowledge and analysis of successful training cases; (2) Commenting and making suggestion on parent-child interaction videos; (3) Demonstration of intervention skills and practice .The contents of the curriculum involved setting up an environment, developing objectives (verbal communication, non-verbal communication, social interaction, imitation, fine motor skills, etc.), designing activities, dealing with challenging behavior. This study will help parents master the basic intervention skills(how to set up an environment, develop objectives, design activities, deal with challenging behavior, etc) . At last the investigators will evaluate the effectiveness of this parental training style for children with autism spectrum disorder in China.

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Parent skills training

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder attend the parental training course once a week, and there was a total of eight courses with each course lasting 3 hours.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Parent skills training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder attend the parental training course once a week, and there was a total of eight courses with each course lasting 3 hours

Interventions

Parent skills training

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder attend the parental training course once a week, and there was a total of eight courses with each course lasting 3 hours

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

PST

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Children with ASD or high risk for autism;
• Han ethic;
• Parents were at least middle school educated, and agreed to do at least 20 hours per week of planned practice activities with the child in daily life.

Exclusion Criteria

• Children with Syndromic ASD caused by known genetic defects or inherited metabolic diseases , such as Rett Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, tuberous sclerosis;
• Visual, auditory and physical disabilities;
• Complication with other serious chronic diseases, such as liver and kidney failure, connective tissue diseases, tumors.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Months
• Maximum Eligible Age: 54 Months
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Children's Hospital of Fudan University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Xiu Xu, Doctor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Children's Hospital of Fudan University

Locations

Children's hospital of Fudan University

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Countries

China

Other Identifiers

FDEK-PST-2019

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id