NCT06651086Recruiting

Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of an Executive Functioning Intervention for Children's Mental Health Services

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Apr 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This project aims to follow up on a prior project examining the impact of training therapists in an executive functioning intervention Unstuck and On Target (UOT) adapted for community mental health settings. Study aims are to test the clinical and implementation effectiveness of training mental health therapists in Unstuck and On Target, an executive functioning intervention, relative to Unified Protocol for Children, a transdiagnostic intervention for emotional disorders. This includes examining the implementation of Unstuck and associated outcomes (e.g., effective delivery, expanded use of Unstuck beyond autism, the feasibility of Unstuck) and impact on changes in child executive functioning and behaviors.

Status (registry): Recruiting
Study type: Interventional
Enrollment: 672 (estimated)
First submitted: 9 Oct 2024
Start date: 15 Dec 2024
Primary completion date: 31 Aug 2029
Lead sponsor: San Diego State University
Diseases: Autism
NCT number: NCT06651086

What you commit to

Study type: Interventional
Planned participants: 672
From 15 Dec 2024 to the primary completion date, 31 Aug 2029
2 sites 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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Who the study is looking for

Mental Health Programs:
Publicly-funded
Providing outpatient or school-based psychotherapy services to children
Have at least 8 mental health providers on staff
- Therapists:
Employed as staff or trainee at a participating program
Employed at the program for at least the next 12 months
Providing psychotherapy services to children
Has an eligible child on current caseload (see below)
- Autistic Child/Caregiver Participants (enrolled in a dyad with a participating therapist):
Child age 6-12 years
Receiving services from an enrolled therapist
Documented or suspected\* autism diagnosis
- In the event of suspected autism diagnosis, the presence of elevated autism symptoms on the Social Responsiveness Scale-2nd Edition or the Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale-2nd Edition
- Non-Autistic Child/Caregiver Participants (enrolled in a dyad with a participating therapist):
Child age 6-12 years
Receiving services from an enrolled provider
No history of documented or suspected autism diagnosis

Age in the registry: 6 years to 99 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (2)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

Site	City	Country	Site status
University of Colorado Anschutz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status	Aurora	United States	Recruiting
San Diego State University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status	San Diego	United States	Recruiting

Related publications

Study protocol for a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation trial of two interventions for autistic and non-autistic youth in children's mental health settings: one tailored for neurodivergence and one universal.Implement Sci Commun · 2025 · PMID 41299783

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