NCT05280613Completed
The Family Check-Up in Autism Services
The Family Check-Up: Implementing a New Family-Centred Model Within Autism Services
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 May 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Many children and youth with autism spectrum disorder have high levels of emotional and behavioural problems. Parents play a powerful role in supporting their children's well-being. Research also shows that certain factors (e.g., parent mental health, access to services) can affect autistic children's well-being in important ways. Despite this, autism services rarely ask about, or act upon, the factors that we know affect child and family well-being. We are addressing this problem by testing a program called the Family Check-Up within a large autism service. The Family Check-Up is a strengths-based, family-centred program aimed at improving child well-being by working with parents to identify their family's unique strengths and challenges, set goals for change, strengthen positive parenting, and connect to needed supports.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 82 (actual)
- First submitted
- 21 Dec 2021
- Start date
- 17 Oct 2022
- Primary completion date
- 31 Aug 2024
- Lead sponsor
- McMaster University
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT05280613
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 82
- From 17 Oct 2022 to the primary completion date, 31 Aug 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Prior participation in the Family Check-Up
Other
- Parent with insufficient knowledge of English to complete assessments
- Current enrollment in another intervention study
- Active significant safeguarding concerns (e.g., child acute severe self-harm or aggression, acute parent or child suicidality)
Who the study is looking for
- Child 6-17 years of age with a confirmed diagnosis of ASD
- Enrollment in the Ontario Autism Program
- Minimum developmental age of 2
- Elevated emotional and behaviour problems
- Residing with the same caregiver at least 5 days/week or every other week for the past 2 months and foreseeable future
Age in the registry: 6 years to 17 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| McMaster University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamilton | Canada | Unknown status |
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