Therapies for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Evidence Table. Therapies for children with ASD (continued)
Study
Description Intervention
Reed et al., 2009
(continued)
Inclusion/ Exclusion
Criteria/ Population
C-93
Baseline
Measures Outcomes
G1: 3.40 ± 0.94 child before he or
Eating habits: she falls asleep:
G1: 3.00 ± 1.12 G1: 2.72 ± 1.32
PSI-SF score, mean G1/BL: P = NS
± SD:
Child watches TV,
Total:
videos, or DVDs
G1: 96.10 ± 23.40 to fall asleep:
Parental distress: G1: 1.50 ± 1.04
G1: 32.05 ± 11.08 G1/BL: P = 0.004
Parent-child Child listens to
interaction: music to fall
G1: 25.90 ± 6.70 asleep:
Difficult child: G1: 2.17 ± 1.34
G1: 38.15 ± 8.80 G1/BL: P = NS
Ease in establishing Parent keeps
sleeping/eating interactions brief if
schedule:
child awakens:
G1: 4.05 ± 1.03 G1: 4.46 ± 1.13
G1/BL: P = NS
Medical:
Parent returns
Children’s Sleep child to bed if
Habits Question- child awakens:
naire score, mean ± G1: 4.36 ± 0.67
SD:
G1/BL: P = NS
Parasomnias: Average time to
G1: 10.50 ± 2.24 fall asleep,
Sleep-disordered minutes ± SD:
breathing:
G1a: 45.6 ± 27.6
G1: 3.42 ± 0.84 G1/BL: P = 0.039
Sensory:
Problems with
PCQ sensory issues reported
score, mean ± SD: improvement in
G1: 2.85 ± 0.99 night wakings, n:
Actigraphy and
parent report: 2/5
Parent report
only: 1/5
Wake time after
sleep onset,
minutes ± SD:
G1b: 32.2 ± 24.7
Time in bed,
minutes ± SD:
G1: 541.91 ± 36.2
(n=12)
G1/BL: P = 0.039
PCQ score, mean
± SD:
Anxiety:
G1: 2.05 ± 0.94
G1/BL: P = NS
Sleep
disturbance:
G1: 2.20 ± 1.01
G1/BL: P = 0.000
Eating habits:
G1: 2.70 ± 1.26