NCT04714606

Feasibility Controlled Trial of an 8-session Group Intervention for Siblings of Children Who Have ASD

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Surrey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A feasibility controlled trial of an eight-session group intervention for siblings of children who have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Children will be recruited from a multi-academy trust of nine schools. Due to the on-going impact of COVID-19 restrictions, children will be allocated to the intervention condition (eight session support group) if they are physically attending school and to the control condition (receipt of a booklet) if they remain at home. Pre and post outcome measures will be completed by children and their parents in both research arms.

Conditions

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Sibling support group	The intervention is a novel, 8 session sibling support group which has been created for the purpose of the study.
OTHER	None - control condition	The second arm of the study is a control condition in which participants will be given a tailored booklet to complete at home as it was deemed unethical to provide them with nothing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-14
• Primary completion: 2021-04-30
• Completion: 2021-04-30
• First posted: 2021-01-19
• Last updated: 2021-06-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom