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Challenging Behavior: early-phase trial registry

1 of 2 indexed Challenging Behavior trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #7,188 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

2 US clinical trials · 1 currently recruiting · #7,188 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Challenging Behavior: 2 US clinical trials tracked, 1 recruiting.

Challenging Behavior is the subject of 2 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 1 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 1 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition challenging-behavior

OPEN 1 | RECR 50% | LATE 0 | EARLY 1 | RANK #7188 | SPON 1

Nearest open-share peer: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (50% recruiting · 6 trials)

Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%Challenging Behavior (this)50%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Challenging Behavior

Challenging Behavior lists 1 open slots (50% of 2 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Challenging Behavior on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Challenging Behavior is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    1 of 2 indexed trials (50%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

Phase 21

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 2 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Challenging Behavior records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Multiple-Context Generalization Training Behavioral
1 trials
Structured-Probe Schedule Thinning Behavioral
1 trials
Caregiver Fading Behavioral
1 trials
Extinction-Correlated Stimuli Behavioral
1 trials
Functional Communication Training Behavioral
1 trials
Propranolol Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Challenging Behavior trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

New Jersey 1 trials
Maryland 1 trials
Alabama 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Challenging Behavior page

2 registered trials, 1 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Challenging Behavior condition card totals 2 registered trials; most-linked intervention Multiple-Context Generalization Training; top US site state New Jersey. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.