Addressing Systemic Health Disparities in Early ASD Identification and Treatment
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 31
- 主要终点
- parent-teacher relationship quality
研究概览
简要总结
The intervention under examination is designed to promote parents' school engagement following the transition from Early Intervention (EI) to preschool for parents of young children who were diagnosed with ASD through our screening and assessment protocol. The brief intervention employs principles of motivational interviewing to address not only the particular child characteristics and needs associated with ASD but also the unique, system-related challenges of navigating the special education system and advocating for appropriate services. Motivational interventions with parents are designed to elicit parents' specific, action-oriented goals for themselves and their children, enhancing motivation to pursue change, and addressing and resolving obstacles or sources of ambivalence.
By identifying and capitalizing on parents' strengths, empowering parents to develop specific goals, and improving parents' readiness to engage actively with their children's school, teacher, and educational team, we expect that this brief intervention will lead to higher levels of parental school involvement, higher special education engagement, and closer and more productive parent teacher relationships.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Months 至 3 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Parents of children who participated in our screening and assessment study, whose children received diagnoses of autism through our assessment, AND
- •whose children are turning 3 and transitioning out of Early Intervention services.
排除标准
- •Children who are medically complex OR
- •have a previous diagnosis of ASD outside of our study OR
- •Don't have a parent/guardian who speak/understand sufficient English or Spanish to complete study materials OR
- •Don't qualify for Early Intervention services
研究组 & 干预措施
Parent Engagement Intervention group
This group of parents will receive the brief, 2-4 hour intervention which will utilize motivational interviewing principles to enhance parents' preschool engagement as their children transition from Early Intervention to preschool.
干预措施: Parent Preschool Engagement intervention (Behavioral)
Attention Control
Waitlist Control Group: This group will receive the brief, 2-4 hour intervention which will utilize motivational interviewing principles to enhance parents' preschool engagement as their children transition from Early Intervention to preschool after a 3 month delay.
干预措施: Attention Control (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
parent-teacher relationship quality
时间窗: 3 months post-intervention
parent-report on the relationship subscale of the Parent-Teacher Involvement Scale
parental school involvement
时间窗: 3 months post-intervention
parent report on the school involvement subscale of the Parent-Teacher Involvement Scale
parent-special education engagement
时间窗: 3 months post-intervention
parent report on the Parent-Special Education Engagement Scale
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Abbey Eisenhower
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts, Boston