NCT06314438

Culturally-Responsive Curriculum for Caregivers With Children at Autism Likelihood

Co-Developing and Piloting Culturally-Responsive Informational Materials About Autism for Families of Young Children: Employing a Train-the-Trainer Implementation Model Within a Nonprofit Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine how helpful and relevant the Family Care Project workbook is for families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who have a young child at autism likelihood. The main questions this trial aims to answer are: * Is the Family Care Project workbook useful for families? * Is the Family Care Project workbook easy to use? * Can the Family Care Project be implemented by non-profit workers who do not have health backgrounds? Participants will complete surveys that elicit their feedback on their use of the workbook.

Detailed description

Access to early, evidence-based autism-specific treatment can profoundly improve long-term outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, current estimates reveal an eight-month to three-year gap between caregiver first concerns about their child's ASD-related behaviors and receipt of ASD-specific services. This prolonged time-period between caregiver first concerns and receipt of ASD-specific services is characterized by elevated parenting stress, increased child behavioral challenges, and reduced quality of life, even compared to families of children with non-ASD developmental concerns. Unfortunately, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities experience lengthier time-periods between first concerns and receipt of services, report increased difficulty accessing timely diagnostic and treatment services, and ultimately experience worse health outcomes compared to White communities. The investigators will partner with Mother Africa, a local non-profit organization, to 1) co-design culturally-responsive caregiver-focused educational materials to support CALD families with young children who have social communication delays or ASD and 2) develop a novel route for dissemination of information and materials within non-profit organizations, which are often the preferred entry-point for accessing healthcare information and services for underserved populations, rather than traditional medical facilities. The educational materials will support caregiver and child well-being by increasing caregiver knowledge and use of ASD specific parenting strategies as well as increasing caregiver awareness and use of local ASD resources. This planned research has the potential to effect programmatic changes in the services and settings available to support CALD communities during the early years of a child's ASD condition and thereby improve child and caregiver outcomes.

Conditions

• Autism
• Development Delay

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Care Project	Caregivers will be administered the Family Care Project workbook.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-15
• Primary completion: 2024-03-15
• Completion: 2024-03-15
• First posted: 2024-03-18
• Last updated: 2025-05-04
• Results posted: 2025-05-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States