Michigan State University is examining the Active Ingredients of Consultation to Improve Implementation of a Parent-mediated Intervention for Children With Autism in the Community Mental Health System

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Michigan State University is enrolling patients into the clinical trial investigating Examining the Active Ingredients of Consultation to Improve Implementation of a Parent-mediated Intervention for Children With Autism in the Community Mental Health System.

Parent-mediated interventions are considered best practice for treating children with autism spectrum disorder, but these interventions are underutilized in community settings. Implementation strategies like consultation can improve the implementation of these interventions, but little is known about the active ingredients of consultation. This study uses an experimental design (ABCD single-case design with multiple baselines) to identify the active ingredients of a consultation model designed to support the implementation of a parent-mediated intervention for autism spectrum disorder in a low-resourced community mental health system.

Groups of 3-5 providers will be recruited from four ABA agencies (~20 providers in total) that contract with regional community mental health agencies to provide ABA services to Medicaid-enrolled children with ASD. Four agencies will be randomly selected from this pool.

Among primary outcome measures are treatment adherence, parent-mediated intervention competence, case penetration, ratings of feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of each consultation phase and others.

This page provides a more detailed overview of this clinical trial: https://ichgcp.net/clinical-trials-registry/NCT04654117