Telehealth Parent Coaching to Improve Activity Participation for Young Children With ASD and SPD

National Taiwan University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Sensory Processing Disorder; Autism Spectrum Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: weekly self-learning materials and group discussion session; Behavioral: parent coaching via telehealth

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT06079632

202301189RINA

Details and patient eligibility

About

This clinical trial aims to develop parent-child interaction strategy coaching and sensory processing strategy coaching via Telehealth and examine the feasibility and efficacy of the interventions in young children with autism spectrum disorder who have sensory processing disorder.

In the first experiment, the investigators will apply a single-subject research design and one-group pre-post test design to explore the feasibility of the coaching interventions. In the second experiment, RCT design will be used to examine the effectiveness of parent coaching. Sixty-five children with ASD and their parents will be randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. The intervention group will receive weekly parent-child interaction and sensory processing strategy coaching for 12 weeks. The control group will be provided with weekly self-learning materials and group discussion session for 12 weeks. Additionally, the follow-up test will be administered three months after the intervention.

Enrollment: 68 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 5 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The child is 3 to 5 years old
• The child is diagnosed with ASD by a child psychiatrist or specialist in psychology based on the DSM-5's diagnostic criteria
• The child's score falls within the category of dysfunction in one or more sensory processing functions in the Sensory Profile (3-10 years old version)

Exclusion criteria

• Children diagnosed with major neuromuscular dysfunction or other disease diagnoses, such as epilepsy or other genetic diseases
• Children whose parents could not speak Hokkenese or Chinese and read in Chinese
• Individuals who have participated in the first year of this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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68 participants in 3 patient groups

Single subject experiment

Experimental group

Description:

Each participant will first receive one-hour, one-on-one parent-child interaction strategy coaching every week via Telehealth until the parent's parent-child interaction skills and the child's social communication abilities reach a stable or upward trend, and the parent's sensory processing strategy utilization ability and the child's daily life participation scores that are continuously collected shows a stable or downward trend. After which, the one-hour, one-on-one sensory processing strategy coaching (C1) will be provided every week via Telehealth until the parent's sensory processing strategy utilization ability and the child's activity participation level reaches a stable trend.

Treatment:

Behavioral: parent coaching via telehealth

RCT, Treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

Participant receive 12 weeks of sensory processing strategy coaching and parent-child interaction strategy coaching intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: parent coaching via telehealth

RCT, Active Comparator

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participant will be provided with weekly self-learning materials and group discussion session for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: weekly self-learning materials and group discussion session