NCT04739982

A Lead-in Study Evaluating Efficacy of GuessWhat Mobile App Therapy for Children With Autism

A Lead-in Study Evaluating Mobile Game Based Therapy Among Children With Autism

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 541 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The following study aims to assess the efficacy, safety data, and best outcome measurements of the mobile game platform, GuessWhat, in delivering behavioral therapy to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). GuessWhat is a mobile application (available for free for iOS and Android) which contains a suite of games: pro-social charades, emotion guessing, and quiz. Participant families will use their personal smartphones to download the app and play it with their child according to a predetermined regimen.

Detailed description

The following study aims to understand the efficacy and safety of the mobile game platform, GuessWhat, in delivering behavioral therapy to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). GuessWhat is a mobile application (available for free for iOS and Android) which contains a suite of games: pro-social charades, emotion guessing, and quiz. Participant families will use their personal smartphones to download the app and play it with their child according to a predetermined regimen. The study will enroll parents who are at least 18 years old and have a child between 3 and 12 years old with a formal ASD diagnosis. Parents will be asked to complete two clinical outcome measure questionnaires immediately prior to and up to 1 week after playing GuessWhat with their child 3 times per week for 4 weeks.

Conditions

• Autism
• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	GuessWhat Mobile App	The GuessWhat app is a charades style game and app that engages parent and child in fluid social interaction where the parent must guess what the child is acting out based on the prompt shown on the phone screen. Participants will use their own personal phone to download the study app. Parent and child will be encouraged to play using the emojis and emotion game mode at least 3 individual game sessions per week. Parents are asked to play GuessWhat with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-07
• Primary completion: 2023-07-15
• Completion: 2023-07-15
• First posted: 2021-02-05
• Last updated: 2024-09-19
• Results posted: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study