NCT05580432

Effect of Parenting With Positive Interven on Comm Inclusion for Military Connected and Dependents With Autism

The Effect of Parenting With Positive Behavior Interventions on Community Inclusion for Military Connected and Dependent Children With Autism and Their Parents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to find out if a training program for parents with military dependent or connected children with autism (ASD) who have challenging behavior will help those children and their families participate in more community activities. The training program, called Parenting with Positive Behavior Interventions, may help military parents learn new tools that will help their children with autism and challenging behavior attend community activities more easily.

Detailed description

Participants will be randomly assigned (like the flip of a coin) to either immediately receive the Parenting with Positive Behavior Interventions or you will be asked to wait in a control condition for six months and then receive the same intervention. Participants have an equal chance of being assigned to any one of the groups (get the treatment immediately or wait 6 months) but will be given a chance to receive the intervention regardless within 6 months. In this study, participants will be asked to do the following things: 1. Attend (virtually or in-person) a one-hour monthly training about behavior interventions for children with autism. 2. Participate in two 60- minutes sessions with a behavior coach (virtually or in-person) each month to talk about a community goal they want to complete with their child. 3. Attend an optional 60-minute meeting with other research participates each month to talk about their experience learning how to manage their child's behavior. 4. Work with a researcher to fill out a series of questionnaires 3 times during the study. These questionnaires will ask about participants, their child's challenging behaviors, stress related to community activities with their child, and how often they participate in community activities with their child with autism and challenging behavior.

Conditions

• Autism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Parenting with Positive Behavior Interventions	Parenting with Positive Behavior Interventions is a 5 month packaged intervention. The curriculum and each element of the training and coaching program is described in detail below. Each month, participants will participate in the following five activities: 1. Didactic Training: Participants will view a presentation 2. Workbook/Homework: Participants will complete a guided worksheet 3. Coaching Meeting - Planning: Participants will meet with a coach who is an expert in autism and behavior 4. Coaching - Observation/ Feedback: The coach will observe parent implementing the strategy, then provide feedback and direction regarding use of technique 5. Virtual Parent Community of Support Meeting: Attend parent led community support meeting to network, share experiences and information, and exchange ideas

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-09
• Primary completion: 2024-06-20
• Completion: 2024-06-20
• First posted: 2022-10-14
• Last updated: 2024-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States