Advanced Social Relations Training

Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Autism

Treatments: Other: Advanced social relations training with technical device; Other: Advanced social relations training without technical device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06342583

CNR-IRIB-PRO-2024-004

Details and patient eligibility

About

Advanced social relations protocol is aimed at young people with autism aged 9-12 years with an intelligence quotient (IQ) ≥ 80. There will be an experimental group in which technology will be used and a control group in which activities will be carried out in the traditional way. The protocol will be carried out once a week for a duration of 45 minutes. The aim is to enhance communication and social skills within the group. A total of 23 sessions are planned. From the first to the third session the participants will acquire skills for communicating and conversing in an appropriate way. Thereafter from the fourth to the eleventh session social stories illustrating scenes from everyday life will be shown, with the aim of learning and managing the dynamics in which they find themselves on a daily basis. At the end of each story shown they will be asked to impersonate the protagonists depicted in the stories, each participant involved in turn will play all the roles shown in the stories, thus working in the mode of role playing.

The last part, which includes sessions from the twelfth to the twenty-third, will be dedicated to the correct and conscious use of social networks with a focus on the risks that can be encountered and the correct ways to make good use of them.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of autism
• intelligence quotient ≥ 80

Exclusion criteria

• presence of other medical disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

15 children from the experimental group will see social stories on a technological device (PC, tablet) and then see slides on a technological device concerning the correct use of social media.

Treatment:

Other: Advanced social relations training with technical device

Traditional group

Other group

Description:

15 children in the control group will see social stories in paper form (flashcards) and then be exposed to the explanation of risks and correct use of social media in a traditional way (flashcards).

Treatment:

Other: Advanced social relations training without technical device