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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Autism Spectrum Ambassador Program

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02842671

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Official title

The Implementation and Evaluation of the Autism Spectrum Ambassador Program

Brief summary

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The investigators are evaluating the implementation and the effectiveness of a medical student staffed support program (ASAP) for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder coming into Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital for a medical procedure. The ASAP program involves training and assigning a medical student as an Ambassador to help advocate for the special needs of a child with ASD. This study is designed to compare patient satisfaction of children and families who are assigned an Ambassador to those who are not assigned an Ambassador during the procedure. The secondary objectives are to measure overall medical student satisfaction with the program, medical student career interests before and after participation, and medical student comfort level interacting with children with ASD before and after participation.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02842671
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
23 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
30 Months to 17 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Nov 30, 2016
Primary completion
Nov 24, 2019
Completion
Nov 24, 2019
Last update posted
Jun 17, 2021

2016 – 2019

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital Hershey Pennsylvania 17033

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