Music added to taekwondo training for children with autism
Compares taekwondo with music against taekwondo alone in autistic children.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Where
- Hong Kong, Hong KongSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Effect of Combined Music and Taekwondo Training for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 70 people, planned
- Started
- 30 Jun 2024
- Expected to end
- 31 Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets a sham (pretend) treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Taekwondo training with music therapy
- Taekwondo training alone
- Record updated
- 13 March 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for Chinese children aged 7 to 9 years with autism spectrum disorder confirmed by a clinical diagnosis. It compares taekwondo training with music to taekwondo training alone.
- Age
- 7 to 9 years
- Sex
- Boys and girls can both join.
- Disease stage
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), diagnosed by a developmental paediatrician or clinical psychologist using the DSM-5 criteria.
- Earlier treatment
- Children cannot have had taekwondo training before. Children cannot have had music therapy in the previous 12 months.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Has had taekwondo training before
- Had music therapy in the previous 12 months
- Severe sensory disorder (blindness or deafness)
- Congenital abnormality or other illness that limits physical activity
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Chinese children aged 7 to 9 years who have been clinically diagnosed as ASD by developmental paediatricians or clinical psychologists based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition criteria for ASD
Who cannot take part
- children who have received music therapy within the previous 12 months
- those who have severe sensory disorders (blindness or deafness)
- those who have underlying congenital abnormalities or other diseases that limit their ability to engage in physical activities
- children who have experience in Taekwondo training
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 7 and 9 years old?
Where in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong, Hong KongContact: Clare CW Yu, Ph.DTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effect of combined music and taekwondo training on the mental and physical condition of children with autism spectrum disorder. Participants will be asked to do combined music and taekwondo training or taekwondo training alone to evaluate if the combined training is better than the taekwondo training alone on mental and physical performance for children with autism spectrum disorder.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Taekwondo training with music therapyTreatment being tested
the participating children will attend 20 sessions of Taekwondo training with the presence of music.
- Taekwondo training aloneSham treatment, for comparison
the participating children will attend 20 sessions of Taekwondo training alone.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Effect of Combined Music and Taekwondo Training on the Psychological and Physical Condition of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Plain-language title
- Music added to taekwondo training for children with autismGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06277778, who can take part
- Record updated
- 13 March 2025