NCT07458633Not yet recruiting
Facilitating Autism Diagnosis in Shorter Timeframes by PCCs
Impact and Effectiveness of Training Primary Care Clinicians to Diagnose Autism in Children 18-36 Months by Primary Care Clinicians: A Multisite Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is looking at time to diagnostic resolution for children ages 18-36 months with concern of ASD. The main purpose of this research study is to see if the time between when a child aged 18-36 months fails an autism screen or a clinician raises concern and is evaluated is shorter in the primary care practices where the clinicians have been trained to conduct diagnostic evaluations. The training includes use of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-2, which is validated for use in children 2 and older. The investigators also want to learn more about whether primary care clinicians can accurately evaluate and diagnose young children ages 18-36 months of age with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 24 Feb 2026
- Start date
- 1 Mar 2026
- Primary completion date
- 1 Oct 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Diseases
- Autism
- NCT number
- NCT07458633
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 300
- From 1 Mar 2026 to the primary completion date, 1 Oct 2027
- No sites listed in no 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
- \- Are not screening children for ASD and standard intervals of 18 and 24 months using a standard meaure.
Who the study is looking for
- Are physicians or nurse practitioners.
- \-- Currently screen children for ASD at 18 and 24 months using a standard measure
- Willing to have practice randomized and willing to defer PCC training if they are randomized to the control group.
- Will obtain permission from parents of children 18-36 months with a positive autism screen or clinician concern for research staff to contact them
- Will attend all training courses, complete all requirements of training, and complete questionnaires that are designed to assess the educational intervention.
- Will keep a record of all diagnostic evaluations they complete over the study period including those children not referred for diagnostic concordance evaluation if they are randomized to the intervention group
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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