Exercise videos in a phone app to encourage activity in children with autism
Tests whether exercise videos showing the child themselves motivate children with autism to move.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Linkoeping University
- Where
- Linköping, SwedenSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Self-inspired & Tailored Autism Movement With Phystic App
- Status
- Enrolling by invitation
- People taking part
- 20 people, planned
- Started
- 30 Jan 2026
- Expected to end
- 2 Apr 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Exercise
- Record updated
- 20 March 2026
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 children with autism, aged 2 to 10 years, who can do daily exercises at home with a parent using a mobile app.
- Age
- 2 Years to 10 Years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- The child must have an autism diagnosis.
Main reasons for not taking part
- A medical reason that prevents training with the parents and doing the exercises
- Age over 10 years
- No mobile phone or tablet with a camera and internet at home
- No one in the family who knows enough Swedish to understand the study information and the app
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Access to a mobile phone or tablet with a camera and internet at home
- Autism diagnosis in the child in question (the patient)
- Someone in the family knows enough Swedish to understand the information about the study and the content of the mobile app
Who cannot take part
- Age >10 years
- Medical impediment to training with the parents and performing the exercises in the prescribed training sessions
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 2 and 10 years old?
Where in Sweden
- Linköping UniversityLinköping, SwedenNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if watching instructions for daily exercises with three different contents (the patients themselves, other children, or children dressed as rabbits in addition to their physiotherapist, could increase physical activity among children with autism.
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The main questions it aims to answer are: Are children with autism motivated to engage in daily exercise by seeing themselves in a mobile application? Researchers will compare instructions with the children themselves with instructions containing other children and children in rabbit suits.
Parents and their children will use the mobile application once daily for 8 weeks, and 5-10 minutes per day.
Parents will fill out questionnaires before, during and after the 8-week intervention, and write about their experiences in the mobile application 2-3 days per week.
The group in the trial
- Daily exercise instructions via mobile applicationTreatment being tested
Daily exercise instructions containing 5-10 minutes of exercise instructions, tailored to specific difficulties (toe walking, DCD), in one of three variants; 1) With the children themselves with their PT, 2) With other children and the PT, 3) With other children dressed as rabbits and the PT.
Treatment: Exercise
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
- Self-inspired & Tailored Autism Movement With Phystic App
- Plain-language title
- Exercise videos in a phone app to encourage activity in 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 NCT07485439, who can take part
- Record updated
- 20 March 2026