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NCT03865719: ACORN-ASD

Weight Management Intervention for Youth and Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Completed NA Last updated 6 April 2022
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Healthy Habits for Life in Autism Spectrum Disorder in 10 participants. Completed in 1 December 2021.

Timeline
7 August 2019
Primary endpoint
15 March 2021
1 December 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity of Pittsburgh
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationna
Designsingle group
Maskingnone
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment10
Start date7 August 2019
Primary completion15 March 2021
Estimated completion1 December 2021
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University of Pittsburgh

Who can join

Adults 8 to 26, any sex, with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Psychotropic medications are the first-line treatment across several diagnostic categories encompassing severe mood disturbances and behavioral problems. The use of Second Generation Antipsychotics (SGAs) has increased in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the last decade. However, SGAs are associated with serious metabolic side effects in youth that include cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus. This makes the public health impact of treating medication-induced metabolic disturbances almost as important as treating the mental illness itself. Improving health and reducing premature mortality in people with severe mental illness, the investigators propose to provide early weight management prevention, delivered by clinicians, for youth starting SGAs in order to target common modifiable health risk factors in the developmental process. This study will provide an urgently needed practical model for integrating weight management into academic- and community-based autism care.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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