Evaluation of the Videodrama Therapeutic Device for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age3-15
SponsorCentre Hospitalier Intercommunal Robert Ballanger

About this trial

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder (Valerie, Sperenza, 2009) that begins early in development, characterized by persistent deficits in communication and social interactions across various contexts and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. These symptoms significantly impact social, school/professional functioning, or other important areas and are not better explained by intellectual disability or global developmental delay (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Children aged 3 to 15 years.

Clinically confirmed ASD by a psychiatrist.

Parental or legal guardian consent for participation.

Child showing a strong interest in screens and/or video content.

Disqualifiers

No ASD diagnosis.

Younger than 3 or older than 15 at the study start.

No interest in screens or video content.

Parental or legal guardian refusal for participation.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • patient included in experimental groupe will view the video excerpt, a playtime, a drawing activities

    Other intervention

    Patients included in the videodrama arm will participate in a total of 18 videodrama sessions, with one session per week. Each session will include a patient welcome period, the viewing of a video excerpt (in slow motion or not), a playtime, a drawing period, and a group closing session. For the play and drawing activities, the same materials will be provided in each department and for each group, including small figurines, animals, shapes (such as cubes, triangles, circles), small plush toys, markers, colored pencils, and A4 white sheets of paper.

Treatment groups

30 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Group of young ASD patients receiving videodrama sessions and interviewsExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Cohort of ASD patients not receiving videodrama but receiving care in participating unitsNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Dunn Sensory Profile questionnaire

Sensory atypicality frequency will be assessed using the Dunn Sensory Profile questionnaire, describing child behavior in various sensory experiences

Time frame
9 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Cars-T questionnaire

Observe improvements in social skills (interaction and communication) in children with ASD, assessed by the Cars-T questionnaire,

Time frame
9 months
2

Sceno Test

Observation of the emergence of a symbolic game. This emergence will be evaluated by the passation of the scenotest, a test which reveals the different modalities of integration of the game.

Time frame
9 months

Other outcomes

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