NCT06867783

EVALUATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

EVALUATION OF EARLY FAMILY AND MULTIFAMILY INTERVENTION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre hospitalier de Ville-Evrard, France · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Collaborative early management of children under 30 months with autism spectrum disorder and their families in an ambulatory child psychiatry unit.

Detailed description

Early intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is now considered a priority. An approach that targets both child disorders and parental distress, and supports the skills of parents, is desirable. Yet there is no early intervention by the ASD involving parents and targeting both child functioning and parenting skills specifically. Our objective is to evaluate quantitatively and qualitatively the collaborative family support system for ASD "Coquille". This scheme combines the development of a personalized care project based on parents' priorities, an intensive single-family parent-child follow-up and a group of multi-family therapy , over a total period of 6 months. Our main hypothesis is the significant decrease in behavioral disorders of children, evaluated by CARS, following the Coquille device. Our secondary hypotheses concern the evolution of parental dimensions following the device (sense of coherence, parental skills, parental stress, coping strategies and social support). We assume that these dimensions will change as a result of the scheme, and that they will be maintained in the medium term, six months after Coquille. A semi-structured interview will qualitatively explore the dimensions related to family resources, before and after the follow-up and in the medium term. This will also allow the mother to collect experience of the device.

Conditions

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	coquille	Modalities: Elaboration of the personalized care project, follow-up parents-child single family, multi-family therapy (MFT). Frequency: MFT weekly, bi-familial observation weekly for one month, single-parent child-parent monitoring weekly for five months, MFT father-child bimonthly for six months, three co-parents, three child psychiatric consultations to develop the personalized collaborative care project

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-29
• Primary completion: 2029-04-01
• Completion: 2029-06-01
• First posted: 2025-03-10
• Last updated: 2025-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France