ASPE Subproject - Training to Understand and Navigate Emotions and Interactions (TUNE In)

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The purpose of this study is to test a novel, cognitive behavioral treatment strategy to improve social functioning in adults with autism spectrum disorder. The treatment, named TUNE In (Training to Understand and Navigate Emotions and Interactions), includes components to address the many behavioral domains involved in social functioning, including social motivation, social anxiety, social cognition, social skills, and generalization of the skills to community settings. The Investigators will test the efficacy of TUNE In to improve social functioning in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a randomized controlled trial using the SRS-2 as the primary outcome measure.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• 18 years of age or older

• Meet ASD diagnostic criteria supported by an outside diagnostic evaluation and/or by the clinical and developmental information gathered from a phone screen

• Be willing to complete screening surveys (outcome measures)

• Social Responsiveness Score, Second Edition, self-report SRS survey score of greater than or equal to 60

Locations
United States
Pennsylvania
Brodkin Lab: Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
RECRUITING
Philadelphia
Contact Information
Primary
Edward Brodkin, M.D
ebrodkin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215-746-4100
Backup
Giulietta Flaherty, PsyD
flahertyg@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
7322595506
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-03-24
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 40
Treatments
Other: Delay Start Group
The Delay Start Group receives the intervention 1-6 months after the Immediate Start Group.
Experimental: Immediate Start Group
The Immediate Start Group receives the intervention as soon as the trial starts.
Sponsors
Leads: University of Pennsylvania

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov