Administering a Parent-based Pilot Intervention for Reducing Anxiety in Children With ASD and Anxiety

NCT04747262 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: School of Education /SPACE
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

We are implementing the SPACE program, an evidence-based protocol that has been proven to be efficent in childhood anxiety disorders and OCD (Lebowitz, 2013; Lebowitz, Omer, Hermes \& Scahill, 2014), in a new population of children with ASD and anxiety. The intervention aims to reduce family accommodation of the child's anxiety symptoms. The program contains 12 weekly 1-hour sessions with the parents. We will examine the impact of the intervention on family accommodation, ASD and anxiety symptomology, as well as parent and child satisfaction from the intervention, using the attached measures.

Conditions

ASD, Anxiety

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• The psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) are discussed in Birmaher, B., Brent, D. A., Chiappetta, L., Bridge, J., Monga, S., & Baugher, M. (1999).

  The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) is a 41-item inventory rated on a 3 point Likert-type scale. It comes in two versions; one asks questions to parents about their child and the other asks these same questions to the child directly. The purpose of the instrument is to screen for signs of anxiety disorders in children.

  15 minutres

• Family Accommodation Scale - Anxiety (FASA)

  study accommodation across childhood anxiety disorders.

  15 minutres

Study Arms (1)

SPACE INTERVENTION

EXPERIMENTAL

counseling

Behavioral: SPACE

Interventions

SPACE BEHAVIORAL

SPACE program, an evidence-based protocol that has been proven to be efficent in childhood anxiety disorders and OCD (Lebowitz, 2013; Lebowitz, Omer, Hermes \& Scahill, 2014)

SPACE INTERVENTION

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Years - 10 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may not qualify if:

• Anxiety treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hebrew university

Jerusalem, 5290002, Israel

RECRUITING

Related Publications (1)

• Rozenblat S, Shimshoni Y, Lebowitz ER, Perez M, Koller J. A Pilot Trial of SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) in Autism. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2025 Feb;56(1):249-263. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01555-4. Epub 2023 Jun 23.

  PMID: 37353645 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Ph.D

Model Details: The program contains 12 weekly 1-hour sessions with the parents. We will examine the impact of the intervention on family accommodation, ASD and anxiety symptomology, as well as parent and child satisfaction from the intervention, using the attached measures.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 6, 2021
• First Posted: February 10, 2021
• Study Start: January 17, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2022
• Study Completion: December 31, 2022
• Last Updated: February 10, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

IL (1)