Parent-delivered Massage for Children With Autism

Completed · Phase 2/Phase 3

Conditions studied: Autism

In brief

Through funding from the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Teaching Research Institute at Western Oregon University (WOU) will be conducting research on the effect of a parent-delivered massage program on measures of autism and general development in young children with autism. Families will participate in an initial training, and receive 24 sessions of ongoing support and training from a trained therapist over the first nine months.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01801696

Run by

Western Oregon University

People needed

103

Starts

2012-09-01

Expected to finish

2016-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-04-29

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 5. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Have a medical and/or educational diagnosis of autism
• Be under age 6
• Parents willing to attend the parent training session and transport the child to treatment sessions with trained staff 20 times in the first five months
• Parents willing to give the fifteen-minute massage daily
• Parents willing not to start any new interventions unless medically necessary

You may not qualify if…

• Taking psychoactive medication or pharmaceutical chelation therapy
• Additional chronic disability (for example, cerebral palsy or uncontrolled seizures)
• Receiving more than five hours per week of intensive behavioral treatment for autism (e.g. ABA therapy)

Where it is running

• Various locations in Albany and Corvallis — Corvallis, Oregon, United States
• Various locations in Eugene, Oregon — Eugene, Oregon, United States
• Various locations in Portland, Oregon — Portland, Oregon, United States
• Various locations in Salem, Oregon — Salem, Oregon, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.