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They participate in supervised pickleball classes twice per week for 8 weeks (16 sessions total). Assessments are completed at baseline and after the Phase 1 intervention period. Participants then return to usual activities during Phase 2 and complete a follow-up assessment.",[13],"Behavioral: Pickleball Program (Community-Based)",{"label":15,"type":6,"description":16,"interventionNames":17},"Delayed Start (Waitlist\u002FUsual Activity Control)","Participants assigned to this arm continue their usual activities during Phase 1 (no pickleball classes during this initial period). They complete baseline and post-Phase 1 assessments, then begin the same community-based pickleball program during Phase 2 (twice per week for 8 weeks; 16 sessions total). A final post-intervention assessment is completed after the Phase 2 intervention period.",[13],[19],{"type":20,"name":21,"description":22,"armGroupLabels":23,"otherNames":24},"BEHAVIORAL","Pickleball Program (Community-Based)","Group-based beginner-friendly pickleball classes delivered in community indoor court facilities. Sessions occur twice per week for 8 weeks (16 sessions total), approximately 90 minutes per session, led by trained instructors.",[15,9],null,[26,30],{"name":27,"affiliation":28,"role":29},"Chris Sciammana, MD","Penn State College of Medicine","PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",{"name":31,"affiliation":32,"role":29},"Daniel E Lidstone, Ph.D.","Penn State Harrisburg",[34],{"facility":32,"status":35,"city":36,"state":37,"zip":38,"country":39,"countryCode":40,"cosmosGeoPoint":41,"geoPoint":46,"contacts":47},"RECRUITING","Middletown","Pennsylvania","17011","United States","US",{"type":42,"coordinates":43},"Point",[44,45],-76.73108,40.19981,{"lat":45,"lon":44},[48],{"name":31,"role":49,"phone":50,"phoneExt":24,"email":51},"CONTACT","828-719-7002","dbl5689@psu.edu",{"type":29,"investigatorFullName":53,"investigatorTitle":54,"investigatorAffiliation":5,"oldNameTitle":24,"oldOrganization":24},"Daniel Lidstone","Assistant Professor","100626218","early-phase-1-effect-of-an-8-week-pickleball-program-for-adults-with-autism-a-feasibility-trial-with-a-delayed-control-design-100626218",false,"NCT07432776","Effect of an 8-Week Pickleball Program for Adults With Autism: A Feasibility Trial With a Delayed-Control Design","Effects of an 8-Week Pickleball Intervention on Sensorimotor Function, Sleep, Depressive Symptoms, and Core Autism Features in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Trial With a Delayed-Control Design","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Aged 18-45 years\n* Clinical diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)\n* Able to participate in group-based activities without caregiver support\n* Able to understand English and independently communicate without assistance\n* Available for at least two sessions per week for the intervention dates\n* Access to reliable transportation to the intervention site\n* Able to provide informed consent (i.e., no legally authorized representative)\n* Pre-exercise screening indicates medical clearance is not needed, based on ACSM guidelines\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Clinical diagnosis of intellectual disability (ID)\n* Does not have normal or corrected-to-normal vision\n* Actively participating in a racquet sport ≥1 time per week\n* Use of mobility aids\n* Moderate-to-severe joint pain (WOMAC pain subscale)\n* Neurologic conditions (cerebral palsy, severe head injury, progressive neurological disorders, epilepsy)\n* Individuals who cannot provide their own informed consent (i.e., have a legally authorized representative)\n* Individuals who require medical clearance for exercise based on the ACSM preparticipation screening questionnaire","ALL","18 Years","45 Years",{"count":66,"type":67},50,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[70],"EARLY_PHASE1","The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an 8-week, community-based pickleball program can improve sensory-motor function and reduce the severity of core autism symptoms in adults ages 18-45 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who can participate independently without a caregiver.\n\nThe main questions it aims to answer are:\n\n1. Does participating in the pickleball program improve sensory-motor function (including visual-motor integration and proprioceptive bias), measured using the HaptiKart task and a pickleball skill assessment?\n2. Does participating in the pickleball program reduce core autism symptom severity, measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale, 2nd edition (SRS-2)?\n\nResearchers will compare an early-start pickleball group to a delayed-start control group (who continues usual activities at first) to see if the pickleball program leads to greater improvements in sensory-motor outcomes and ASD symptom severity.\n\nParticipants will:\n\n* Complete an in-person baseline visit at a local public library to provide written consent, complete surveys (SRS-2, PROMIS Depression and Sleep measures, and WHOQOL-BREF), and complete a video game-based sensory-motor assessment (HaptiKart).\n* Be randomly assigned to either start pickleball classes immediately or after an initial delay period.\n* Attend pickleball classes twice per week for 8 weeks (90 minutes per class; 16 sessions total), led by trained instructors at community indoor court facilities.\n* Continue their usual activities during periods when they are not assigned to pickleball classes.\n* Complete a brief pickleball skill assessment during the intervention period at their first and last class.\n* Complete follow-up assessments after each phase of the study to repeat surveys and sensory-motor testing.\n* Participants will also wear a small activity monitor (ActiGraph) during pickleball sessions to measure in-class physical activity levels, and complete brief online check-ins about safety\u002Finjury and program feedback during the intervention period.",[73],"Autism Spectrum Disorder",[73,75,76,77,78,79,80],"ASD","Autism","Adult","Pickleball","Sensory-Motor","Sensorimotor","2026-02-18",{"date":83,"type":84},"2026-02-25","ACTUAL",{"date":86,"type":84},"2026-02-02",{"date":88,"type":67},"2026-07-15",{"name":5,"class":6},1]