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| Title |
Study protocol: a randomized controlled trial investigating the effects of a psychosexual training program for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
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| Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12888-015-0586-7 |
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| Authors |
Kirsten Visser, Kirstin Greaves-Lord, Nouchka T. Tick, Frank C. Verhulst, Athanasios Maras, Esther J. M. van der Vegt |
| Abstract |
Previous research shows that adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) run several risks in their psychosexual development and that these adolescents can have limited access to reliable information on puberty and sexuality, emphasizing the need for specific guidance of adolescents with ASD in their psychosexual development. Few studies have investigated the effects of psychosexual training programs for adolescents with ASD and to date no randomized controlled trials are available to study the effects of psychosexual interventions for this target group. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) described in this study protocol aims to investigate the effects of the Tackling Teenage Training (TTT) program on the psychosexual development of adolescents with ASD. This parallel clinical trial, conducted in the South-West of the Netherlands, has a simple equal randomization design with an intervention and a waiting-list control condition. Two hundred adolescents and their parents participate in this study. We assess the participants in both conditions using self-report as well as parent-report questionnaires at three time points during 1 year: at baseline (T1), post-treatment (T2), and for follow-up (T3). To our knowledge, the current study is the first that uses a randomized controlled design to study the effects of a psychosexual training program for adolescents with ASD. It has a number of methodological strengths, namely a large sample size, a wide range of functionally relevant outcome measures, the use of multiple informants, and a standardized research and intervention protocol. Also some limitations of the described study are identified, for instance not making a comparison between two treatment conditions, and no use of blinded observational measures to investigate the ecological validity of the research results. Dutch Trial Register NTR2860 . Registered on 20 April 2011. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 7 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 194 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 28 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 12% |
| Researcher | 22 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 29 | 15% |
| Unknown | 60 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 57 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 5% |
| Unknown | 65 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2015.
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#10
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