NCT05927116Completed
RCT of a Mobile Phone App-based Intervention for Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
A Mobile Phone App-based Intervention for Supporting and Empowering Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): a Randomised Waitlist-controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a 6-week mobile app-based intervention in empowering and supporting Chinese parents of ASD children through knowledge and skills transfer and mindfulness training, to explore factors associated with enhanced user experiences and sustained usage through participants' qualitative feedback and observing naturalistic usage patterns beyond the active intervention period, and to refine the mobile app based on the data prior to wider dissemination of the app. We hypothesise that there will be a greater reduction in parental stress and mood symptoms, and improvement of mindfulness attitude and parenting competence in parents with ASD children after the 6-week app-based intervention than the waitlist controls.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 852 (actual)
- First submitted
- 4 Jun 2023
- Start date
- 1 Jan 2024
- Primary completion date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT05927116
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 852
- From 1 Jan 2024 to the primary completion date, 23 Feb 2026
- 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
- Currently receiving psychological interventions
Other
- Parents who are not the main carer of their ASD children
- Undergoing mindfulness training will be excluded
Who the study is looking for
- Chinese parents living in Hong Kong
- Parents caring for ASD children, diagnosed by clinicians according to the criteria of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) criteria and aged ≤12
- Recruited from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric clinic at the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, a regional hospital providing the sole public child and adolescent psychiatric service in the New-Territory East Cluster of the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong
- Able to read and understand Cantonese
- Have access to an internet-enabled mobile phone with a valid phone number for the duration of the trial
Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Unknown status |
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