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Promoting Resilience in Teens With ASD

NCT04208425 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2020-03-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are almost uniformly costly and time-intensive, blunting dissemination of intervention and stymying opportunities to make scalable impact. This study offers the first pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of whether a single session intervention, shown to reduce internalizing problems in typically-developing youth, may improve core and co-occuring symptoms of ASD.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Project Personality

The intervention includes five components: 1. An introduction to the brain, including a lesson on the concept of neuroplasticity, describing how and why our behaviors are controlled by thoughts and feelings in their brains, which have potential for change; 2. Written testimonials from older youths who describe their beliefs that people's personal traits (e.g., sadness, anxiety) are malleable, given the brain's plasticity; 3. Additional vignettes written by older youths, describing times when they used "growth mindsets" to persevere through social and emotional setbacks; 4. A summary of selected scientific studies suggesting that personality can, and often does, change in positive ways over time; and 5. An exercise in which the participants write notes to younger students, drawing on scientific information to describe the malleability of people's personal traits (i.e., a "self-persuasion" exercise).

BEHAVIORAL

Sharing Feelings Intervention

The ST SSI is designed to control for nonspecific aspects of intervention, including engagement in a computer program. It includes the same number of reading and writing activities as the web-based growth mindset intervention; it also mirrors the web-based growth mindset intervention as closely as possible, including vignettes written by older youths who describe times when they benefited from sharing their feelings with friends or family.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Autism Research Institute

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Stony Brook University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joseph P Giacomantonio, B.S · Stony Brook University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-07
Primary Completion
2021-12-31
Completion
2022-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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