Parent Video Feedback Intervention Study

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Parent-Child Relations

Treatments: Behavioral: Control Group; Behavioral: Treatment Condition

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03397719

1707018416

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to use a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of parent coaching sessions using video-based feedback, compared to the sessions without the use of video-based feedback on parent strategy use.

Full description

This study is a randomized controlled trial of video-based feedback interventions for the parents of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the beginning of the study, each participant will be randomized to the video-based feedback condition (treatment condition) or standard care procedure (control condition). All participants will be asked to implement the strategies taught during the sessions in the home environment (e.g., following the child's lead, sitting face-to-face). Participants randomized into the video-based feedback condition (treatment condition) will be asked to video-tape their interactions with their children (maximum 30 mins/week at home during free play, book reading, bath or meal time routines). The therapist then will review the tapes and then use the recorded sessions to give feedback on the parents' use of strategies in addition to providing in-vivo feedback based on the live interactions during the sessions. For parents whose children are randomized into the standard care condition, the families will receive coaching based on in-vivo sessions as described above. For all participants, a battery of assessment (diagnostic, developmental testing), will be administered at the beginning of the study participation, in the mid-point at 3 months, at the end of their 6-month participation of treatment sessions, and then at the follow-up period, 6 months after the end of their participation of the treatment sessions.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 4 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children who will be enrolled into the early intervention (EI) classroom at the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain (CADB) will be invited to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• We do not have any exclusionary criteria as long as the children meet the inclusion criteria (families with children with ASD between 1-4 years who will be enrolling in the CADB early intervention classroom).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group will receive treatment as usual. Each participant will receive three hours of in-vivo parent coaching per week for 6 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control Group

Treatment Condition

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive an additional component which will involve videotaping parent/child interactions at home for thirty minutes a week. Each week, the therapist will select sections of the video to review with the parent during one of the parent coaching sessions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment Condition