NCT07238153Recruiting
Promoting Emotional and Autonomic Control Through Guided Breathing Exercises for Emerging Adults With Autism
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study examines the impact of guided breathing exercises on stress and heart rate variability (HRV) in autistic young adults. It explores how daily movement behavior (sleep, physical activity and sedentary behavior) influences HRV and to what extent two guided breathing exercises can affect HRV. Additionally, the study investigates how participants perceive the exercises in terms of usability and usefulness.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 68 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 19 Sept 2025
- Start date
- 30 Nov 2025
- Primary completion date
- 1 Apr 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT07238153
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 68
- From 30 Nov 2025 to the primary completion date, 1 Apr 2028
- 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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Other illness
- Participant has a history of congenital heart diseases, diagnosed cardiovascular abnormalities or somatic diseases conditions that may interfere with the main outcome measure HRV or with the safe practice of breathing exercises (e.g., uncontrolled epilepsy, severe respiratory illness)
- Presence of contra-indications for participating (intervention and/or assessment): acute agitation and/or severe psychiatric symptoms (psychosis, mania or major depression) and/or active substance use.
- The use of medication known to affect cardiac modulation (excluding hormonal contraceptives).
- Hearing- or vision impairment that cannot be corrected to normal functioning.
Other
- The presence of an intellectual disability, defined as an intelligence quotient \< 70, as described in the DSM-IV/DSM-V.
- Insufficient knowledge of Dutch language in order to follow instructions and fill out questionnaires.
- Female who is pregnant.
- Participation in another interventional study, with or without an investigational medicinal product (IMP) or device (IMD).
Who the study is looking for
- For participants ≥18 years a voluntary written informed consent and for participants \< 18 years a written informed consent from the parents or their legally authorized representative and an informed assent of the participant has been obtained prior to any screening procedures
- Male or Female (biological)
- Between 16 and 25 years old
- Diagnosis of autism as described in the DSM-IV/DSM-5(-TR)
Age in the registry: 16 years to 25 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| KU Leuven Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leuven | Belgium | Recruiting |
| UPC Z.Org Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leuven | Belgium | Not yet recruiting |
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