The Effectiveness of an Attention-based Intervention for School Aged Autistic Children With Anger Regulating Problems

VU University of Amsterdam

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Anger can go!; Behavioral: Parent psycho-education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05221515

BOBpaper2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children on the autism spectrum often show aggressive behavior. Treatment can train children to be more aware of their emotions. Investigators studied the effectiveness of an attention-based intervention tailored on aggressive behavior problems and the use of anger coping strategies of school aged autistic children with anger regulation problems.

Full description

Investigators studied the effectiveness of an attention-based intervention tailored on aggressive behavior problems and the use of anger coping strategies of school aged autistic children with anger regulation problems. Using a randomized controlled trial (RCT), children were allocated to the attention-based treatment in combination with a psycho-educational parent-training (treatment group) or to the parent-training only (active control group).

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
• age 8 - 13
• seeking treatment for aggressive behaviour problems

Exclusion criteria

• psychotropic medication still being set

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention condition

Experimental group

Description:

Participants received both parent training and child-focussed treatment

Treatment:

Behavioral: Anger can go!

Behavioral: Parent psycho-education

Control condition

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants received only parent training

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent psycho-education