Status:
COMPLETED
Parent-delivered Massage for Children With Autism
Lead Sponsor:
Western Oregon University
Collaborating Sponsors:
HRSA/Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Conditions:
Autism
Eligibility:
All Genders
2-5 years
Phase:
PHASE2
PHASE3
Brief Summary
Through funding from the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Teaching Research Institute at Western Oregon University (WOU) will be conducting research on the effect of a parent-delivered massage p...
Detailed Description
Children will be randomly divided into treatment groups and wait-list control groups. The control groups begin treatment five months after the treatment groups begin. All children will be tested on t...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Have a medical and/or educational diagnosis of autism
- Be under age 6
- Parents willing to attend the parent training session and transport the child to treatment sessions with trained staff 20 times in the first five months
- Parents willing to give the fifteen-minute massage daily
- Parents willing not to start any new interventions unless medically necessary
Exclusion
- Taking psychoactive medication or pharmaceutical chelation therapy
- Additional chronic disability (for example, cerebral palsy or uncontrolled seizures)
- Receiving more than five hours per week of intensive behavioral treatment for autism (e.g. ABA therapy)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2012
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
103 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01801696
Start Date
September 1 2012
End Date
March 1 2016
Last Update
April 29 2016
Active Locations (4)
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1
Various locations in Albany and Corvallis
Corvallis, Oregon, United States, 97330
2
Various locations in Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, United States, 97455
3
Various locations in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon, United States, 97232
4
Various locations in Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon, United States, 97308