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NCT Number: NCT04450641

Piloting a Mobile Game for Behavioral Therapy

The following study aims to understand the feasibility of the mobile app and game, GuessWhat, to deliver behavioral therapy to children with autism. The GuessWhat app is a charades style game that engages parent and child in fluid social interaction where the parent must guess what the child is acting out based on the prompt shown on the phone screen. Participants will use their own personal phone to download the study app. The app will walk participants through a variety of charades style games. The interactive games will be video recorded and all data are transferred securely to the Wall Lab for analysis. This study is enrolling parents of children with ASD who are at least 18 years of age and have a child between 3-12 years old. Parents are asked to complete questionnaires before and after playing the GuessWhat game with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.

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Key information

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorder Autism Autistic Disorder Child Development Disorders, Pervasive Mental Disorders Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Age range

3 year–12 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Stanford University

Stanford, California, 94305, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Parent who is at least 18 years old of child with autism.
  • Child with autism is between 3 and 12 years old at time of baseline data collection.

Exclusion criteria

  • Parent is not able to read or speak English
  • Parent does not have an Android or iOs smartphone compatible with GuessWhat App

Treatment and study plan

GuessWhat Mobile Application

Other

The GuessWhat app is a charades style game and app that engages parent and child in fluid social interaction where the parent must guess what the child is acting out based on the prompt shown on the phone screen. Participants will use their own personal phone to download the study app. Parent and child will be encouraged to play using the emojis and emotion game mode at least 3 individual game sessions per week. Parents are asked to play GuessWhat with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in parent reported social responsiveness from week 0 to week 4

    Time frame: Baseline (Week 0), Week 4

    The Social Responsiveness Scale-2 is a 65-item measure where parents rate their child selecting responses on a Likert Scale. This measure will be used to measure and identify social impairment associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to quantify its severitySocial Responsiveness Scale (SRS) raw scores measure social abilities with lower scores indicating better social skills. (Raw Score Range: 0 - 195 and T-Score Range: 37- above 90).

  2. Change in parent reported socialization subscale scores of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales,2nd Edition (VABS-II) from baseline to week 4

    Time frame: Baseline (Week 0), Week 4

    Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 2nd edition (VABS-II) Socialization subscale of the Parent/Caregiver Comprehensive form will be administered online to the parents. Scores from the socialization domain of the VABS-III reflects one's functioning in social situations. The socialization subscale is 32 items, where raw scores are converted to IQ-type standard scores--v-scale scores (M=15, SD=3) where scores range from 1 to 24, and factor in age equivalents, growth scale values, and higher scores indicate better adaptive functioning.

Secondary outcomes

  1. GuessWhat App Usage Data

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    App usage data comprised of game decks selected, number of game sessions started, ended, and shared.

  2. Parent reported feedback

    Time frame: Week 4

    Qualitative survey delivered to parent participants at Week 4 to understand preferred games, overall feedback including likes and dislikes, any technical issues they experienced or challenges in using the app.

  3. Change in parent reported communication subscale scores of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales,2nd Edition (VABS-II) from baseline to week 4

    Time frame: Baseline (Week 0), Week 4

    Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 2nd edition (VABS-II) Communication subscale of the Parent/Caregiver Comprehensive form will be administered online to the parents. Scores from the communication domain of the VABS-III reflects The communication subscale is 32 items, where raw scores are converted to IQ-type standard scores--v-scale scores (M=15, SD=3) where scores range from 1 to 24, and factor in age equivalents, growth scale values, and higher scores indicate better adaptive functioning.

Other outcomes

  1. Baseline Parent Reported Social Communication

    Time frame: Baseline (Week 0)

    The Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) screens for autism in children over 4:0 years in age. Parents are asked 40 Yes/No questions and the resulting score is out of 39 (the first question is not associated with a numerical value). The SCQ assesses a child's communication skills and social functioning. It takes less than 10 minutes to complete and is administered by clinical research coordinators to parents of children during the phone screen to participants who have already completed the online screening questionnaire. A score of 15 or above is indicative of autism and is required to be eligible in the research study.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Stanford University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Gamified Mobile Platform for Improving Social Communication in Children With Autism

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Jun 29, 2020
Registry last updated
Feb 3, 2021

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