Parent-delivered Massage for Children With Autism



Status:Active, not recruiting
Conditions:Neurology, Psychiatric, Autism
Therapuetic Areas:Neurology, Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:2 - 5
Updated:4/21/2016
Start Date:September 2012
End Date:February 2016

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Phase 2 Study of the Parent-delivered Massage Treatment Protocol for Children With Autism

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.

Children will be randomly divided into treatment groups and wait-list control groups. The
control groups begin treatment five months after the treatment groups begin.

All children will be tested on three occasions in the first year: prior to beginning
treatment, and five and twelve months later. Follow-up testing will be conducted at the end
of the second year. Results will be shared with parents at the end of each year. Testers
will remain blinded as to which group is currently receiving treatment.

There is no cost to parents for participation in this research study. Families meeting the
eligibility criteria will be accepted into the study on a first-come, first-served basis.

Inclusion Criteria:

- 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

Exclusion Criteria:

- 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)
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