Piloting a Mobile Game for Behavioral Therapy

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

186 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-10-01

Study Completion Date

2020-12-31

Brief Summary

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The following study aims to understand the feasibility of the mobile app and game, GuessWhat, to deliver behavioral therapy to children with autism. The GuessWhat app is a charades style game 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. The app will walk participants through a variety of charades style games. The interactive games will be video recorded and all data are transferred securely to the Wall Lab for analysis. This study is enrolling parents of children with ASD who are at least 18 years of age and have a child between 3-12 years old. Parents are asked to complete questionnaires before and after playing the GuessWhat game with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Autism Spectrum Disorder Autism

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

All participants who complete baseline measures will be directed to download the GuessWhat app. Participants who do not download the GuessWhat app and elect not to play, will be assigned to the Inactive Users group during analysis.

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

No masking. All participants received the same condition and asked to play a mobile app. Participants who did not play the app during piloting were asked to complete study measures pre and post. These measures were compared against participants who did play the app.

Study Groups

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Treatment

Treatment group used GuessWhat during the 4 week intervention period.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

GuessWhat Mobile Application

Intervention Type OTHER

The GuessWhat 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. Parent and child will be encouraged to play using the emojis and emotion game mode at least 3 individual game sessions per week. Parents are asked to play GuessWhat with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.

Control

Participants in control group received standard treatment as usual.

Group Type OTHER

GuessWhat Mobile Application

Intervention Type OTHER

The GuessWhat 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. Parent and child will be encouraged to play using the emojis and emotion game mode at least 3 individual game sessions per week. Parents are asked to play GuessWhat with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.

Interventions

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GuessWhat Mobile Application

The GuessWhat 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. Parent and child will be encouraged to play using the emojis and emotion game mode at least 3 individual game sessions per week. Parents are asked to play GuessWhat with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.

Intervention Type OTHER