Health Education and Relationships Through Theater: An RCT of Promoting Awareness Through Live Movement and Sound for Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder (PALMS-ASD) (HEART)

Public Health Management Corporation

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Sexual Health

Education, Health

Treatments

Behavioral: Promoting Awareness through Live Movement and Sound for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04005547

90AP2690-01-00 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

PublicHMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Teens with ASD ages 14-19 will be screened for eligibility, complete a baseline interviewer/ACASI-administered survey, and randomly assigned to either intervention or control group. The enrollment goal is 500 teens. The 12-hour intervention will be run in groups of up to 12 teens, with health educators leading the group and actors assisting, role playing with participants, and performing a skit. Teens in the intervention group will take a post satisfaction survey, and teens in both conditions will take a 6-month and 12-month interviewer/ACASI-administered outcome survey. Fidelity will be monitored by observers and rated by health educators.

Enrollment

72 patients

Sex

All

Ages

14 to 19 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

meets age limits and
parent/self-identifying as having an autism spectrum disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, or autism-similar social challenges, and/or
mild intellectual disability

Exclusion criteria

screen-out with screening tool, if not screened in by documented staff observation
- Hospitalization within the last 3 months for a behavioral or mental cause
- Inability to participate in group setting (sensory, extreme social/communication challenges)
- Previous criminal conviction for sex offense
- Sibling previously randomized to control
screen-out with KBIT-2: Score < 50 OR Score above 70 on KBIT-2 and not receiving services for or having a diagnosis of ASD
capacity to consent