Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Trial
Official title:
Effectiveness of the WHO Caregivers Skills Training (CST) Program for Children With Developmental Disorders and Delays in Rural Community Settings in Pakistan: An Individual Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
Background: Increasing prevalence rates of developmental disorders (DDs) including Autism
Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and intellectual disability are a public health priority
particularly in Low and Middle Income countries (LIMC) and are included in the World Health
Organization (WHO) mhGAP program. However, existing mental health care facilities and
resources are insufficient in most low resource settings to cater for this increasing demand.
To address this situation, Caregiver Skills Training (CST) program for children with
developmental disorders and delays has been developed by the WHO to bridge the treatment gap
in low resource settings.
Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the WHO CST
program plus treatment as usual (TAU) vs. TAU to improve caregiver-child interaction in
children with developmental disorders and delays, when implemented by non-specialist health
care facilitators in a low-resource rural community settings of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Methods: A two arm, single blind individual randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be carried
out with 160 caregiver-child dyads with development disorders and delays in community
settings of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 160 caregiver-child dyads will be individually randomized
on 1:1 allocation ratio into intervention (n=80) and control (n=80) arms. Participants in the
intervention arm will receive 3-hours group training sessions of WHO CST program once every
week for 9 weeks and 3 individual home sessions delivered via non-specialist health care
facilitator over a duration of 3-months. The primary outcome is improvement in play-based
caregiver-child interaction at 9-months post-intervention. The secondary outcomes are
improvement in routine home-based caregiver-child interaction, child's social communication
skills, adaptive behavior, emotional and behavioral problems and parental health related
quality of life. The data on health services utilization will also be collected at 9-months
post-intervention. Qualitative process evaluation with a sub-sample of study participants and
trainers will be undertaken following the RCT. The study will be completed within an
estimated period of 11-months.
Discussion: Outcomes of the study will be the evidence on the effectiveness of WHO CST
program to improve caregiver child interaction and improvement in social communication
skills, adaptive behaviors of children with developmental disorders and delays in the low
resource setting of Pakistan.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 160 |
Est. completion date | January 31, 2021 |
Est. primary completion date | December 31, 2020 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 2 Years to 9 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Children aged 2-9 years old, with developmental disorders and delays as screened by TQS - Screened positive on communication problems as identified by Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale (CSBS) score <41 - Developmental Disability-Children's Global Assessment Scale (DD-CGAS) score = 51 as assessed by clinician. Exclusion Criteria: - Children having epilepsy with seizures in the previous 6 months - Children with Cerebral Palsy as assessed by the clinician. - Co-morbid physical and mental conditions in the child that require inpatient hospitalization. - Significant uncorrected hearing and visual impairment in child or parent. - Any severe psychiatric or physical illness in primary caregiver requiring inpatient hospitalization. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Pakistan | Human Development Research Foundation | Islamabad |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Human Development Research Foundation, Pakistan | University of Liverpool, WHO Collaborating Center for mental health research, Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, World Health Organization |
Pakistan,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Play-based caregiver-child interaction | The primary outcome will be change in play-based caregiver-child interaction using Joint Engagement Rating Inventory. An observational, video rated tool will be used to rate caregivers-child's engagement and behavior during play and home routine following a communication play protocol on a 7-point Likert scale The tool has been adapted for coding. caregivers' child interaction in the context of Pakistan. Fifteen-minute video taped caregiver-child interaction will be collected at baseline and at endpoint for families in both arms of the study. Caregivers will be asked to try play based routines (e.g. playing with toys or reading a book) with their child or home routines involving the child (e.g. feeding the child performing domestic chores). The videos will be singly coded by trained assessors. | 9-months post-intervention | |
Secondary | Adaptive functioning behaviors | Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS) will be used to measure adaptive behaviors. VABS will be used to measure child's functioning in the area of communication, daily living skills, socialization and motor skills. The VABS contains 5 domains each with 2-3 subdomains. The main domains are Communication, Daily Living Skills, Socialization, Motor Skills, and Maladaptive Behavior (optional). There are five general categories of answers for each item. These are "Usually Performs", "Sometimes Perform", "Never Performs", Never had the opportunity to perform" and "Don't know or never observed the child to perform". | At baseline, 9-weeks and 9-months post-intervention follow-up. | |
Secondary | Child emotional and behavioral problems | Child emotional and behavioral problems will be measured through Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). It consists of 113 questions, scored on a three-point Likert scale (0=absent, 1= occurs sometimes, 2=occurs often). CBCL is made up of eight syndrome scales: anxious/depressed, depressed, somatic complaints, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule-breaking behavior, and aggressive behavior. | At baseline, 9-weeks and 9-months post-intervention follow-up. | |
Secondary | Parental health related quality of life | Parental health related quality of life will be measured by Pediatric Quality of Life (PedsQL) Family impact module. It is a 36 items impact module scale that consisting of 6 sub-scales measuring parent self-reported functioning. These subscales measure physical functioning, emotional functioning, social functioning, daily activities and family relationships. Items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale (0 = never to 4= almost always) and add up to 100 score, where higher scores indicate better Health Related Quality of Life. | At baseline, 9-weeks and 9-months post-intervention follow-up. | |
Secondary | Health services utilization | The cost of health services utilization from the time proceeding assessment will be assessed with the adapted Client Services Receipt Inventory (CSRI). It has been adapted to use for the families of children with developmental disorders and delays. It measures the utilization of various health and social care services including time and opportunity losses by the families in the care of their child with developmental disorder and delay. | At baseline and 9-months post-intervention follow-up. | |
Secondary | Communication and Symbolic Behavior | Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale will be used as a screening tool to identify children with delay in social communication, expressive speech/language, and symbolic functioning, as well as a secondary outcome measures to determine the impact of intervention overtime. CSBS measures 7 language predictors: emotion and eye gaze, communication, gestures, sounds, words, understanding, and object use. CSBS caregiver questionnaire consists of 41 items divided into seven clusters which make three composites i.e. social composite, speech composite and symbolic composite. Items are rated on 3-point Likert scale: "Not Yet/Rarely", "Sometimes" and "Often/Usually". | Screening, 9-weeks & 9-months post-intervention follow-up. |
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