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About this trial

The overarching aim is to generate knowledge to reduce incidence of pain in non-verbal patients' everyday life. The trial will 1) evaluate how HR can be used to identify potentially painful care procedures that should be re-evaluated in terms of the approach taken; 2) test the effect of heart rate (HR)-informed changes in potentially painful care procedures on biomarkers of pain, and 3) assess how six weeks of communication through HR affects the quality of communication between patient and caregiver.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Between 5 and 70 years of age at the time of data collection

Autism spectrum disorder as evaluated by clinical psychologist

Communication difficulties

Living at a care home with round-the-clock staff for at least five days a week; or attending one-to-one staffed school/day-care at least five days a week.

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • HR-informed change in routine
  • Delayed HR-informed specific change in routine

Treatment groups

38 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Locations

2
Oslo University Hospital0192, Oslo Norway
University of Oslo0450, Oslo Norway

Sponsors and collaborators

University of Oslo

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov