Expanding Autism Diagnostic Biomarkers to Kenya (KinleyET)

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Eyelink Portable Duo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06685822

23559

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will use a non-invasive remote eye-tracking system (Eyelink Portable Duo) to acquire a short series of eye-tracking measures.

Full description

The study will use a non-invasive remote eye-tracking system (Eyelink Portable Duo) to acquire a short series (less than 15 mins) of eye-tracking measures (e.g., looking time, pupil diameter, oculomotor dynamics), which may be associated with autism in young children. The investigators will recruit children from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH; Eldoret, Kenya) previously enrolled in the Health Equity Advancing through Learning Health Systems Research (HEAL-R) Autism at MTRH study (IREC/664/2023, approval number 0004633)

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 72 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children enrolled in the HEAL-R Autism at MTRH study
• Children ages 14-72 months
• Caregivers of children must speak Kiswahili (local language) or English.

Exclusion criteria

• Children not enrolled in the HEAL-R Autism at MTRH study
• Children younger than 14 months or older than 72 months
• Caregivers of children do not speak Kiswahili (local language) or English.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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27 participants in 1 patient group

Children participate in eye-tracking activity

Experimental group

Description:

Children enrolled in the HEAL-R Autism at MTRH study will be enrolled into the study. Research participation includes a one-time eye-tracking activity in which the child will view a series of different pictures and movies while their eye movements and pupil diameter are tracked and recorded.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Eyelink Portable Duo