NCT03685474: FYF-SB

Facing Your Fears in Schools: Implementing a CBT Program for Students With ASD or Other Special Learning Needs

Completed NA Last updated 30 September 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Facing Your Fears - School Based in Autism Spectrum Disorder in 389 participants. Completed in 1 June 2020.

Timeline

1 August 2018

Primary endpoint
1 June 2020

1 June 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Colorado, Denver
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	crossover
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	389
Start date	1 August 2018
Primary completion	1 June 2020
Estimated completion	1 June 2020
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Facing Your Fears - School Based
• Usual Care

Conditions studied

• Autism Spectrum Disorder — all drugs for Autism Spectrum Disorder →

Sponsor

University of Colorado, Denver

Who can join

Adults 8 to 14, any sex, with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The overall goal of the project is to develop a feasible, effective and sustainable school-based program to manage anxiety in elementary and middle school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other special learning needs. There are two phases to this Department of Health and Human Services/Health Resources and Services Administration-funded research. In the first phase, there will be engagement of community partners in the process of developing the adapted intervention for implementation in schools. The first phase is ongoing until approximately fall of 2018.

This project is the second phase of this program of research and is focused on piloting and implementing the school-based intervention within 3 local school districts in a systematic and sustainable way - through a "train-the-trainer" model. Primary aims are:

1. to prepare cross-disciplinary teams of School - Based Trainers to conduct three pilot student groups of Facing Your Fears - School Based (FYF-SB) within their own district, with the goal of later training others in their districts to deliver FYF-SB.
2. at the start of the following academic year (2019-2020), within each of the three participating districts, 10 schools will be randomized to one of two conditions for the fall semester: a) FYF-SB or b) Usual Care; and assess implementation and treatment outcomes.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Facing your fears in schools: using the ADIS/ASA to characterize anxiety and intervention outcomes in students with autism or suspected autism.
   Reaven J, Cosgrove KT, Losh A, Nickles S, et al · · 2025 · PMID 40778329 · DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1569435