NCT05927207Completed
Pilot Testing of a Mobile Phone App-based Intervention for Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Pilot Testing of a Mobile Phone App-based Intervention for Supporting and Empowering Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): a Mixed-method Study of Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The objective of this study is to conduct a pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a 6-week mobile app-based intervention in empowering and supporting Chinese parents of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children through knowledge and skills transfer and mindfulness training. The investigators hypothesise that the app will be feasible and acceptable, and 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
- 40 (actual)
- First submitted
- 4 Jun 2023
- Start date
- Aug 2023
- Primary completion date
- Aug 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT05927207
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 40
- From Aug 2023 to the primary completion date, 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
- 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 pilot 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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