Improving Transition Outcomes for Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder From Within a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
- Primary Endpoint
- Baseline Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory-Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT) ASD
- Status
- Withdrawn
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Despite an increasing number of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), fragmentation across child and adult service systems results in poor education, employment and health outcomes for transition-aged youth (TAY). The investigators will develop a transition intervention embedded in a series of systems-level strategies currently being deployed in a large Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The investigators will conduct a randomized pilot study of 40 families of TAY with ASD. All families will receive care by providers trained in the Got Transition toolkit (the systems level component of the intervention) and have access to web-based transition resources. Families in the 'intervention refinement' arm will also receive a family-based problem solving education (PSE) intervention.
Detailed Description
This is a randomized pilot study of 40 families of TAY with ASD. Families will be randomly allocated to study arms - not for the purpose of maximizing internal validity; but rather, to allow us to refine recruitment techniques that maximize the acceptability of randomization. Twenty families in the 'intervention refinement' arm will receive a PSE-based intervention; among this group, the model will be refined in real time - based on both experience delivering the intervention and ongoing qualitative data collection. Refinement arm participants will receive a PSE prototype based on prior initial adaptations. Each pilot family will also be asked to participate in a semi-structured interview. The interviews will be conducted after families have experienced at least 3 PSE sessions and use their data to further refine the model and develop hypotheses concerning testable intervention targets. Among 20 families in a control-like 'parameter estimation' arm, empiric estimates will be obtained of study parameters key to the design of a future trial. All families in this arm will receive care from providers trained in the Got Transition toolkit, and will have access to web-based resources for creating a young adult vision statement and for accessing multiple service sectors. Participants will be tracked over six-months. Consistent with pilot methods, the analysis will not emphasize comparisons across study arms
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Speak English or Spanish
Exclusion Criteria
- •Foster families
- •Families in which a parent has either serious mental illness or limited cognitive capacity
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Baseline Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory-Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT) ASD
Time Frame: Baseline
The PEDI-CAT ASD is a parent report measure that assesses abilities in three functional domains: Daily Activities, Mobility, and Social/Cognitive. A separate Responsibility domain measures the extent to which the caregiver or child takes responsibility for managing complex life tasks that enable independent living in the areas of Organization \& Planning, Taking Care of Daily Needs, Health Management, and Staying Safe. The PEDI-CAT is valid up to age 21 and is specific to youth with ASD. Normative standard scores (provided as age percentiles and T scores) and Scaled Scores are available for 59 age groups. Typically, T-scores between 30 and 70 (i.e. mean ± 2 standard deviations) are considered within the expected range for age.
6 months PEDI-CAT ASD
Time Frame: 6 months
The PEDI-CAT ASD is a parent report measure that assesses abilities in three functional domains: Daily Activities, Mobility, and Social/Cognitive. A separate Responsibility domain measures the extent to which the caregiver or child takes responsibility for managing complex life tasks that enable independent living in the areas of Organization \& Planning, Taking Care of Daily Needs, Health Management, and Staying Safe. The PEDI-CAT is valid up to age 21 and is specific to youth with ASD. Normative standard scores (provided as age percentiles and T scores) and Scaled Scores are available for 59 age groups. Typically, T-scores between 30 and 70 (i.e. mean ± 2 standard deviations) are considered within the expected range for age.
Secondary Outcomes
- Social skills(baseline)
- Parent Functioning and Depressive Symptoms assessed by QIDS(baseline)
- Family Empowerment(baseline)
- Perceived parental stress(baseline)
- Perceived youth stress(baseline)
- Youth coping strategies(baseline)
- Health Care Transition Readiness and Family Perception of Health Care Integration using TRAQ(6 months)
- Cognition(baseline)
- Parent Functioning and Depressive Symptoms assessed by SAS-SR(baseline)
- Parental coping strategies(baseline)
- Parental stress(baseline)
- Vocational and Educational Activities(6 months)
- Health Care Transition Readiness and Family Perception of Health Care Integration using the Pediatric Integrated Care Survey (PICS)(6 months)