Developmental DisabilitiesPROSPECT+NCT06458959
Exploratory Trial of a Pediatric Web-Based Care Planning Guide
A study testing PEM+ in people with Developmental Disabilities and Developmental Delay, run by University of Illinois at Chicago at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays use early intervention (EI) for rehabilitation services. Yet, poor quality of EI services is pervasive, particularly for racially and ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged families. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Developmental Disabilities, Developmental Delay
- What is being tested?
- PEM+
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 223 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 12 Dec 2024to 12 Nov 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- read, write, and speak English,
- have internet and telephone access
- identify as a parent/legal guardian of a child enrolled in EI for 3+ months
Who cannot join
- do not read, write, and speak English
- do not have internet and phone access
- do not identify as a parent/legal guardian of a child enrolled in EI for 3+ months
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site
University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, 60612
About this study
Official title: Patient-Reported Outcomes Plus Care Planning Applications for Strengthening Participation on Early Intervention Care Teams
Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays use early intervention (EI) for rehabilitation services. Yet, poor quality of EI services is pervasive, particularly for racially and ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged families. A key lever to improve EI quality is family-centered care, an evidence-based approach that is grounded in family engagement for shared decision-making. This project is motivated by the need to give families a smart and connected option for engaging in the design of the EI service plan for their child. This project upgrades and tests an evidence-based and innovative electronic solution that helps families to organize and share their priorities for change and ideas for goal attainment with professionals, so as to ensure fit of the service plan with their needs.
Read the detailed description
Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays use early intervention (EI) for rehabilitation services. Yet, poor quality of EI services is pervasive, particularly for racially and ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged families. A key lever to improve EI quality is family-centered care, an evidence-based approach that is grounded in family engagement for shared decision-making.
This project further develops and evaluates the Participation and Environment Measure (PEM), an electronic option for family-centered EI service design that has two parts: 1) an evidence-based and promising electronic patient-reported outcome (e-PRO) assessment called the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM), and 2) a prototypic goal setting application called Participation and and Environment Measure Plus (PEM+). This project builds on published evidence for its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the YC-PEM e-PRO, when paired with a program-specific decision-support tool, on EI service quality. EI stakeholder perspectives on salient supports, barriers, and strategies signal its viability for broader early intervention service system implementation. One important optimization involves expanding its reach to historically minoritized families.
This project will be accomplished in 3 aims: 1. The PEM assessment and intervention content will be culturally adapted to amplify the assessment and consideration of racial climate on young children's participation in activities during the design of an EI service plan (i.e., make content more relevant for racially and ethnically diverse EI families). 2. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be applied to personalize the user experience of the PEM intervention to a broader range of EI enrolled families (i.e., leverage the power of natural language processing as a form of AI, to individualize the PEM intervention to caregivers in two ways). 3. The team will evaluate the effectiveness of the upgraded PEM electronic option to improve caregiver perceptions of family-centered service quality, improve parent engagement in EI service plan implementation, and increase the proportion of participation-focused EI service plans. EI family and provider perspectives will be obtained on supports, barriers, and strategies to its broader implementation in the early intervention service system.
- Conditions
- Developmental Disabilities, Developmental Delay
- Being tested
- PEM+
- Keywords
- early intervention, participation, childhood disability, environment, families, family-centered care
- Medical subject headings
- Developmental Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
PEM+Behavioural
The Young Children's Participation in Environment Measure (YC-PEM), an evidence-based and promising electronic patient-reported outcome (e-PRO) when combined with the Participation and Environment Measure Plus (PEM+) care planning application that yields a summary report and is paired with a program-specific decision-support tool, may support family engaged Early Intervention (EI) service plan development. Intervention group caregivers will complete the YC-PEM e-PRO and PEM+ intervention before their child's annual review of progress. The online summary report will be combined with a program-specific decision-support tool to guide EI service plan development.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| PEM+ | Experimental | Not described Receives: Behavioral: PEM+ |
| Usual Care | No intervention | Not described |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Pediatric Rehabilitation Intervention Measure of Engagement - Parent version (PRIME-P)
11-item self-report measure that asks parents what they thought, how they felt, and what they did during their child's therapy session and how the session has affected their overall feelings about the intervention process.
Measured: baseline, 4 weeks, 3 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted14 Jun 2024
- Study start12 Dec 2024
- Primary completion12 Nov 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion12 Nov 2026 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Developmental DisabilitiesStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Care provider
- Enrolment
- 223 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Rocky Mountain Human Services
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06458959
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2020-0908
- Acronym
- PROSPECT+
- Status last verified
- Jul 2026
- First submitted
- 4 Jun 2024
- Last updated
- 5 Oct 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 5 Oct 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Patient-Reported Outcomes Plus Care Planning Applications for Strengthening Participation on Early Intervention Care Teams
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06458959
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- PROSPECT+ / 2020-0908
- Conditions
- Developmental Disabilities, Developmental Delay
- Keywords
- early intervention, participation, childhood disability, environment, families, family-centered care
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Enrolling by invitation
- Enrolment
- 223 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Rocky Mountain Human Services
- Study start
- 12 Dec 2024 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 12 Nov 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 12 Nov 2026 (estimated)
- First posted
- 14 Jun 2024 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays use early intervention (EI) for rehabilitation services. Yet, poor quality of EI services is pervasive, particularly for racially and ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged families. A key lever to improve EI quality is family-centered care, an evidence-based approach that is grounded in family engagement for shared decision-making. This project is motivated by the need to give families a smart and connected option for engaging in the design of the EI service plan for their child. This project upgrades and tests an evidence-based and innovative electronic solution that helps families to organize and share their priorities for change and ideas for goal attainment with professionals, so as to ensure fit of the service plan with their needs.
Detailed description
Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays use early intervention (EI) for rehabilitation services. Yet, poor quality of EI services is pervasive, particularly for racially and ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged families. A key lever to improve EI quality is family-centered care, an evidence-based approach that is grounded in family engagement for shared decision-making.
This project further develops and evaluates the Participation and Environment Measure (PEM), an electronic option for family-centered EI service design that has two parts: 1) an evidence-based and promising electronic patient-reported outcome (e-PRO) assessment called the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM), and 2) a prototypic goal setting application called Participation and and Environment Measure Plus (PEM+). This project builds on published evidence for its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the YC-PEM e-PRO, when paired with a program-specific decision-support tool, on EI service quality. EI stakeholder perspectives on salient supports, barriers, and strategies signal its viability for broader early intervention service system implementation. One important optimization involves expanding its reach to historically minoritized families.
This project will be accomplished in 3 aims: 1. The PEM assessment and intervention content will be culturally adapted to amplify the assessment and consideration of racial climate on young children's participation in activities during the design of an EI service plan (i.e., make content more relevant for racially and ethnically diverse EI families). 2. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be applied to personalize the user experience of the PEM intervention to a broader range of EI enrolled families (i.e., leverage the power of natural language processing as a form of AI, to individualize the PEM intervention to caregivers in two ways). 3. The team will evaluate the effectiveness of the upgraded PEM electronic option to improve caregiver perceptions of family-centered service quality, improve parent engagement in EI service plan implementation, and increase the proportion of participation-focused EI service plans. EI family and provider perspectives will be obtained on supports, barriers, and strategies to its broader implementation in the early intervention service system.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (care provider)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| PEM+ | Experimental | Behavioral: PEM+ |
| Usual Care | No intervention | – |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- read, write, and speak English,
- have internet and telephone access
- identify as a parent/legal guardian of a child enrolled in EI for 3+ months
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- do not read, write, and speak English
- do not have internet and phone access
- do not identify as a parent/legal guardian of a child enrolled in EI for 3+ months
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| PEM+The Young Children's Participation in Environment Measure (YC-PEM), an evidence-based and promising electronic patient-reported outcome (e-PRO) when combined with the Participation and Environment Measure Plus (PEM+) care planning application that yields a summary report and is paired with a program-specific decision-support tool, may support family engaged Early Intervention (EI) service plan development. Intervention group caregivers will complete the YC-PEM e-PRO and PEM+ intervention before their child's annual review of progress. The online summary report will be combined with a program-specific decision-support tool to guide EI service plan development. | Behavioural | PEM+ |
Primary outcome
Pediatric Rehabilitation Intervention Measure of Engagement - Parent version (PRIME-P)
Time frame: baseline, 4 weeks, 3 months
11-item self-report measure that asks parents what they thought, how they felt, and what they did during their child's therapy session and how the session has affected their overall feelings about the intervention process.
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 5 Oct 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing PEM+ in people with Developmental Disabilities and Developmental Delay, run by University of Illinois at Chicago at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: enrolling by invitation, as of the sponsor's last update on 5 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Pediatric Rehabilitation Intervention Measure of Engagement - Parent version (PRIME-P) (time frame: baseline, 4 weeks, 3 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 5 Oct 2026.