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An experiment to see if a training is useful to support parents in reducing problem behaviours shown by their children with autism in India

Co-design and open trial of a parenting programme for autistic adolescents in India - NIL

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2025/11/098046
Enrollment
30
Registered
2025-11-25
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-12-08

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Building Bridges Triple P parenting intervention: The Building Bridges Triple P program will consist of five 120-minute group sessions and three 30-minute telephonic sessions. All sessi

Sponsors

Arush Goel
Lead Sponsor
Dr Hiran Thabrew
Collaborator
Prof Trecia Wouldes
Collaborator

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The sample will include parents only. The inclusion criteria is as follows - Parents of adolescents aged 12-19 years who have received a diagnosis of autism (through ICD-10, including 84.0, F84.1, F84.5, F84.9, through ICD-11:6A02) by a clinician (psychiatrist, paediatrician, or clinical psychologist) Parents reporting problem behaviour (including but not limited to irritability, aggression, self-harm, non-compliance, tantrums, etc). Parents who can read, speak and understand English enough to effectively grasp the content of the training and reliably complete the outcome measures Parents who have the means to attend the training sessions offline

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Parents of adolescents aged 12-19 who have received the diagnosis of Rett syndrome, other childhood disintegrative conditions, overactivity, and other pervasive developmental conditions (through ICD-10:F84.2, F84.3, F84.4, and F84.8, through ICD-11:LD90.4) Evidence of psychosis in adolescents Parents engaged in any other parent training program or within the last year Autistic adolescents undergoing intensive Applied Behavioural Analysis program (ABA) or within the last year

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Child problem behaviours measured through likert scale parent self-report measures: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman; 1997) and Child Adjustment and Parent Efficacy Scale - Developmental Disability (CAPES DD; Mazzucchelli, Sanders & Morawska, 2011)Timepoint: Pre-intervention, Post-intervention(8-weeks) and at 3 months

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Parent confidence and self-regulation measured through liker scale parent self-report measures: Child Adjustment and Parent Efficacy Scale - Developmental Disability (CAPES DD; Mazzucchelli, Sanders & Morawska, 2011) and Parenting Self-Regulation Scales-Parent version (PSRS; Sanders et al., 2017)Timepoint: Pre-intervention, post-intervention and three month follow-up;Feasibility of conducting the trial measured through The ease of recruiting participants and providing them training (based on the student researcher s experience), the overall cost involved during the various stages of the trial (i.e. receiving training in the intervention, cost of material provided to participants, and cost involved in training the participant), attendance and attrition of participants and time duration of data collection will be used to assess the feasibility of the open trialTimepoint: Post-intervention to 3 month follow-up;Acceptability of the intervention measured through quantitative questionnaire - Therapy Attitude Inventory (TAI; Eyberg & Johnson, 1974) and qualitative interviewsTimepoint: Quantitative measure will be collected post-intervention and qualitative interviews will be conducted at 3-month follow up

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactM Karuppasamy

University of Auckland

arush.goel@auckland.ac.nz

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026