Clinical trial NCT00080145: RUPP PI PDD: Drug and Behavioral Therapy for Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Official title: Risperidone and Behavioral Therapy in Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Autistic Disorder
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
Keywords: Autistic Disorder
Asperger Syndrome
Lead sponsor: Yale University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
First posted: 2004-03-25
Enrollment: 124
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 4
Maximum age (years): 13
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This 24-week study will compare the safety and effectiveness of medication treatment alone (risperidone or aripiprazole) to medication treatment in combination with a parent management training program.

Detailed description: PDD can be a profoundly disabling condition across social, emotional, and academic domains. Safe and effective treatments for PDD are needed.

Participants are randomly assigned to receive either risperidone plus parent management training or risperidone alone for 24 weeks. Participants who show deterioration at Week 4 will be offered an alternative mediation treatment, aripiprazole. These participants will remain in their original treatment group (either med alone or med plus parent management training). After 6 months of treatment (Week 24), participants who respond to their treatment will be gradually discontinued from their medication treatment to learn if the response can be sustained without continued medication treatment (This phase of the study was ended in Nov. 2006) Adaptive and behavioral outcomes are assessed during the study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Autistic Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, or Pervasive Developmental Disorder not otherwise specified
* Weight \> 30 lbs
* IQ \>= 35 or mental age of at least 18 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Psychotic Disorder
* History of intolerance or nonresponse to risperidone
* Pregnancy
* History of neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Primary outcomes:
measure: Home Situations Questionnaire
timeFrame: Week 24
measure: Vineland Daily Living Skills Scale
timeFrame: Week 24
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Irritability subscale-Aberrant Behavioral Checklist
timeFrame: Week 24
measure: Clinical Global Impressions-Improvement (CGI-I)
timeFrame: Week 24
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New Haven
country: United States
facility: Yale University
state: Connecticut
city: Indianapolis
country: United States
facility: Indiana University
state: Indiana
city: Columbus
country: United States
facility: Ohio State University
state: Ohio
Study officials:
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