The following study aims to understand the feasibility of the mobile app and game, GuessWhat, to deliver behavioral therapy to children with autism. The GuessWhat app is a charades style game that engages parent and child in fluid social interaction where the parent must guess what the child is acting out based on the prompt shown on the phone screen. Participants will use their own personal phone to download the study app. The app will walk participants through a variety of charades style games. The interactive games will be video recorded and all data are transferred securely to the Wall Lab for analysis. This study is enrolling parents of children with ASD who are at least 18 years of age and have a child between 3-12 years old. Parents are asked to complete questionnaires before and after playing the GuessWhat game with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
186
The GuessWhat app is a charades style game and app that engages parent and child in fluid social interaction where the parent must guess what the child is acting out based on the prompt shown on the phone screen. Participants will use their own personal phone to download the study app. Parent and child will be encouraged to play using the emojis and emotion game mode at least 3 individual game sessions per week. Parents are asked to play GuessWhat with their child 3-4 times per week for 4 weeks.
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States
Change in parent reported social responsiveness from week 0 to week 4
The Social Responsiveness Scale-2 is a 65-item measure where parents rate their child selecting responses on a Likert Scale. This measure will be used to measure and identify social impairment associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to quantify its severitySocial Responsiveness Scale (SRS) raw scores measure social abilities with lower scores indicating better social skills. (Raw Score Range: 0 - 195 and T-Score Range: 37- above 90).
Time frame: Baseline (Week 0), Week 4
Change in parent reported socialization subscale scores of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales,2nd Edition (VABS-II) from baseline to week 4
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 2nd edition (VABS-II) Socialization subscale of the Parent/Caregiver Comprehensive form will be administered online to the parents. Scores from the socialization domain of the VABS-III reflects one's functioning in social situations. The socialization subscale is 32 items, where raw scores are converted to IQ-type standard scores--v-scale scores (M=15, SD=3) where scores range from 1 to 24, and factor in age equivalents, growth scale values, and higher scores indicate better adaptive functioning.
Time frame: Baseline (Week 0), Week 4
GuessWhat App Usage Data
App usage data comprised of game decks selected, number of game sessions started, ended, and shared.
Time frame: 4 weeks
Parent reported feedback
Qualitative survey delivered to parent participants at Week 4 to understand preferred games, overall feedback including likes and dislikes, any technical issues they experienced or challenges in using the app.
Time frame: Week 4
Change in parent reported communication subscale scores of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales,2nd Edition (VABS-II) from baseline to week 4
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 2nd edition (VABS-II) Communication subscale of the Parent/Caregiver Comprehensive form will be administered online to the parents. Scores from the communication domain of the VABS-III reflects The communication subscale is 32 items, where raw scores are converted to IQ-type standard scores--v-scale scores (M=15, SD=3) where scores range from 1 to 24, and factor in age equivalents, growth scale values, and higher scores indicate better adaptive functioning.
Time frame: Baseline (Week 0), Week 4
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