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Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 Jun 30:106496. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106496. Online forward of print.
ABSTRACT
There is rising empirical help which suggests kids on the autism spectrum, in addition to their caregivers expertise vital well being disparities. The international COVID-19 pandemic has solely magnified the necessity to handle well being amongst weak populations. While there was a rising pattern within the supply of telehealth interventions, the supply of such strategies for youngsters on the autism spectrum, and their caregivers stays comparatively beneath examined. The main aim of PLANE (Physical Literacy And Nutrition Education) is to advertise constructive trajectories of well being for youngsters on the autism spectrum and their main caregivers by the supply of a telehealth bodily exercise and diet schooling program. The examine is a pre-experimental evaluation of PLANE throughout 12 months. All actions might be delivered nearly by weekly synchronous and asynchronous programming. A complete of 180 individuals might be enrolled on this intervention, together with kids on the autism spectrum and caregivers. Each week a brand new bodily exercise talent together with alternatives for recipe meeting might be delivered remotely. Supplemental materials might be disseminated on-line together with; step-by-step instructions outlining behavioral talent methodology, alternatives for extra talent follow, and studying materials that help weekly matters. Study outcomes might be examined within the parent-child dyad and embody charges of chubby/weight problems, bodily exercise, diet and high quality of life. Finally, feasibility of the telehealth intervention can even be measured. Justification for the conceptualization and supply of PLANE is properly warranted, and PLANE represents a promising intervention which is scalable, sustainable, and replicable.
PMID:34216816 | DOI:10.1016/j.cct.2021.106496
