NCT07159308Recruiting
Motivation for Daily Living Skills
Enhancing Motivation to Complete Daily Living Skills Among Transition-aged Autistic Youth
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to enhance motivation to complete daily living skills among 16 to 25-year-old autistic teens and young adults. Here are the main questions the trial aims to answer: Can this trial improve motivation to complete daily living skills for skills that people know how to do but struggle to do them consistently? Can this trial improve completion of the daily living skill that the participant identifies they want to do more often? Do people report feeling more empowered to complete the daily living skill they want to do more often? Are there any characteristics of a person that make them more or less likely to benefit from the treatment? Researchers will compare treatments that target different types of motivation: * One treatment focuses on internal motivation and explores what is important to someone and then connect that value back to their daily living skill goal. * A second treatment focuses on external motivation and will explore a person finding outside sources of motivation, like rewards. * A third treatment will use a combination of both methods. Autistic teens and young adults enrolled in this study will also be asked to choose someone in their life to be involved in the study with them. This person is called an "Important Person" (IP) and can be anyone close to them, like a family member, friend, roommate, partner, etc. The IP will be expected to support the teen/young adult throughout this treatment. Participants and their IPs will: * Complete five 'talk' therapy sessions that will last 60 to 90 minutes. The IPs will join the last 15 minutes of each session. * Be assigned to one of the three motivation treatments. * Fill out questionnaires before the first session, after sessions 2 through 5, and up to 4 weeks after therapy ends.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 180 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 29 Aug 2025
- Start date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT07159308
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 180
- From 15 Sept 2025 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- Changes to mental health treatment plan that could alter response to study intervention in the opinion of the Investigator (ex. starting or ending therapy that could influence the daily living skill goal).
- Participation in a prior trial of our intrinsic motivation condition
Other illness
- Current, comorbid psychiatric disorder with sufficiently intense symptoms in the opinion of the Investigator that these symptoms may confound treatment.
Other
- Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability
- Participant is currently considered a suicide risk in the opinion of the Investigator or is currently demonstrating active suicidal or homicidal ideation or self-injurious behavior.
- \- Is not willing to support the autistic teen/young adult with their daily living skill goal
Who the study is looking for
- Age 16-25 years
- Participants reporting an autism diagnosis or Social Communication Disorder diagnosis from a qualified provider (Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Developmental Pediatrician, Neurologist). When possible, diagnosis will be confirmed through the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Electronic Health Record (EHR).
- Must identify an important person who is able to communicate by understanding and speaking full sentences in English
- Ability to communicate by understanding and using full sentences in English
- Informed Consent
- Be willing to have sessions audio- and video-recorded
- Age 18 years or older
- Must attend at least 15 minutes of each treatment session
- Ability to communicate by understanding and using full sentences in English
- Informed consent
- Be willing to have sessions audio- and video-recorded
Age in the registry: 16 years to 25 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOP Center for Advanced Behavioral Healthcare Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Recruiting |
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