Equine-assisted therapy for autistic children: An exploration of effectiveness and mechanisms of change.

Curtin University0 sites6 target enrollmentSeptember 19, 2023

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

September 19, 2023

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•6 children between the age of 9\- to 14\-years with a diagnosis of ASD, and their parents (no age limit for parents).

•Only participants that are not simultaneously engaged in any other psychological treatment and if receiving pharmacological treatment, with a minimum of 3 months of medication stability will be recruited. To monitor potential confounding effects, parents will be asked to inform of medication changes over the course of the study and information about participation in adjunct therapies will be collected.
•Exclusion criteria for the child participants are very high levels of anxiety or sensory sensitivities that would prevent participants from comfortably interacting with the horses and farm setting, extreme externalising behaviours and being completely non\-verbal or unable to communicate.