Behavior Problem Clinical Trial
Official title:
Contextual Behavioral Strategies to Help Parents Adhere to Behavior Plans for Children With Autism
Many children with autism demonstrate severe problem behavior (SPB) in the form of self-injury, aggression, and disruptive behavior. Conducting a functional analysis and implementing derived treatments can produce effective behavior plans. Nonetheless, skills training and an effective plan may not be sufficient to produce parent adherence. This applied research proposal describes an approach to target the negative maintaining contingencies supporting parent reinforcement of problem behavior (accommodation) and nonadherence. The intervention, borrowed from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Behavioral Activation strategies, is matched specifically to the hypothesized function of the problematic caregiver responses (negative reinforcement). Parents who participate in the proposed investigation will be assigned to either the Defuse Experience Accept Live intervention (DEAL) protocol group or treatment as usual. Five 45-min DEAL sessions will 1) introduce caregivers to behavior change strategies that maximize contact with positive-maintaining contingencies related to adherence, while undermining the contingencies that maintain accommodation, and 2) provide caregivers with new treatment-related committed actions that are sensitive to positive changes in parent-child interactions. Within and between participant analyses will be conducted to determine the effectiveness of the DEAL protocol.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 50 |
Est. completion date | October 31, 2024 |
Est. primary completion date | October 31, 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Child under the age of 18 years, - Child is diagnosed with ASD, as confirmed by the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale-3, - Child problem behavior is socially-maintained as identified via functional analysis, - Parent is English-speaking, and - Parent attendance of at least 80% of appointments at entry into the study. Exclusion Criteria: - Child is older than 18 years of age, - Child does not have ASD, - Child's problem behavior is not socially-maintained, - Parent does not speak English, and - Parent attendance at time of study entry is less than 80%. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | Kennedy Krieger Institute | Baltimore | Maryland |
United States | Kennedy Krieger Institute | Columbia | Maryland |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc. | Organization for Autism Research |
United States,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Accommodation to Adherence Change Score | Conditional probabilities derived from a contingency space analysis | Change from Time 1 (Week 1) to Time 2 (Week 7) | |
Primary | Experiential Avoidance | The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire 2nd Edition (AAQ-II) assesses experiential avoidance (EA). The AAQ-II is a 7 item self-report instrument with a range of 7-49. Higher scores are indicative of higher levels of experiential avoidance. | Change from Time 1 (Week 1) to Time 2 (Week 7) | |
Primary | Cognitive Fusion | The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ) assesses cognitive fusion, or rigidly following self-generated rules. The CFQ is a 7 item self-report instrument with a range of 7-49. Higher scores are indicative of a higher level of cognitive fusion. | Change from Time 1 (Week 1) to Time 2 (Week 7) | |
Primary | Parenting Stress | The Parenting Stress Index - Short Form (PSI-SF) is a 36 item self-report instrument that measures parenting stress on a 5-point Likert scale. The Parental Distress subscale contains items that resemble statements that a parent might make about their own parenting skills. Self-statements oftentimes may function as rules, which we conceptualize as a more specific measure of parent cognitive fusion. Therefore, we consider high scores on this subscale to be reflective of parent-based cognitive fusion. | Change from Time 1 (Week 1) to Time 2 (Week 7) |
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