Ayub Medical College

This randomized control trial aims to assess the efficacy of the SCERTS intervention in children aged 3-6 years diagnosed with mild to moderate Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The study evaluates the program's impact on improving social communication skills, adaptive behavior, and reducing caregiver stress while enhancing parental quality of life. The intervention incorporates components of Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, and Transactional Support, tailored to cultural and contextual needs in Pakistan. The study will also validate translated and culturally adapted tools for program evaluation.
The SCERTS model is a multidisciplinary, evidence-based intervention that focuses on enhancing social communication, emotional regulation, and providing transactional support in children with ASD. This 8-week program will be tested through a single-blind randomized trial, with participants assigned to an experimental group or a waitlist control group. Outcomes include joint attention, imitation, emotional sharing, and intentional communication. The study will also evaluate the intervention's feasibility, fidelity, and acceptability in the Pakistani context. Post-intervention assessments and follow-ups will determine long-term benefits.

With this research, we are aiming at finding out the effectiveness of prone positioning in this region population affected by moderate pneumonia due to covid 19 infection so that the hospital staff and doctors may be encouraged with facts and data to use such an easy maneuver to stabilize patient's oxygen saturation as we believe that prone positioning does have a protective effect against severe disease and has an effect on reducing mortality if patients are encouraged for prone positioning with proper technique and for suitable time duration as has been observed in the clinical practice in the covid wards. Therefore, we want to assess the effects of 8 hours per day prone positioning the patients with confirmed covid pneumonia admitted in the covid wards.

To find the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine alone and adjuvant with azithromycin in mild to severe Covide-19 pneumonia patients admitted to Coronavirus cell/ward of Ayub Teaching hospital, Abbottabad Pakistan. A single centered, single-blind randomized control trial study.