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Clinical Trials/NCT06346353
NCT06346353
Completed
Not Applicable

Substance Consumption, Personality, and Cognitive Functioning of Chess Players and Non-chess Players - an Online Survey

Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim1 site in 1 country756 target enrollmentJanuary 31, 2024

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Addiction
Sponsor
Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Enrollment
756
Locations
1
Primary Endpoint
Alcohol Use
Status
Completed
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

The aim of this project is to find out if there is a difference in addictive behavior, personality traits, and cognitive abilities between chess players and non-chess players.

Detailed Description

In the present planned study, tournament chess players will be compared with non-tournament chess playing individuals by means of an online survey. Among other things, the investigators want to investigate whether these groups of persons differ in various characteristics such as their consumption behavior (alcohol, tobacco, and drug use), their personality, their depressiveness and mood, or their cognitive abilities. The background is the question whether playing chess could be protective against substance use disorders or could mitigate the manifestation.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
January 31, 2024
End Date
May 31, 2024
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Observational
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Responsible Party
Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • all persons from the age of 18 years
  • Inclusion in the group of chess players is based on the existence of a DWZ.
  • Sufficient ability to answer the questionnaires

Exclusion Criteria

  • Not provided

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Alcohol Use

Time Frame: baseline

Alcohol Use Disorders Indentification Scale (AUDIT-C), Bohn, Babor, \& Kranzler, 1995

Automatic Alcohol Craving

Time Frame: baseline

Craving Automated Scale - Alcohol (CAS-A), Vollstädt-Klein, Leménager, Jorde, Kiefer, \& Nakovics, 2015

Anxiety

Time Frame: baseline

State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI - trait Version), Spielberger, 1983

self-efficacy

Time Frame: baseline

Self-efficacy expectancy (SWE) Jerusalem \& Schwarzer, 1999

Substance Craving

Time Frame: baseline

Mannheimer Craving Scale (MACS), Nakovics, Diehl, Geiselhart, \& Mann, 2009

Severity of Nicotine Dependence

Time Frame: baseline

Fagerstrom Test of Nicotine Dependence (FTND), Heatherton, Kozlowski, Frecker, \& Fagerström, 1991

Smoking Consequences

Time Frame: baseline

Smoking Consequences Questionnaire (SCQ), Lewis-Esquerre, Rodrigue, \& Kahler, 2005

Drug Abuse

Time Frame: baseline

Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10), Lam et al., 2015

Personality

Time Frame: baseline

NEO five factor inventory (NEO-FFI), Körner et al., 2008

Depression

Time Frame: baseline

Beck Depressions Inventar - II (BDI-II) Kühner, Bürger, Keller, \& Hautzinger, 2007

Inhibition capacity

Time Frame: baseline

Stop Signal Task (Sebastian et al., 2013)

Automatic Cigarette Craving

Time Frame: baseline

Craving Automated Scale - Cigarette Smoking (CAS-CS), Tan et al., 2022

coping with stress

Time Frame: baseline

Brief COPE, Carver, Scheier, \& Weintraub, 1989

Working Memory capacity

Time Frame: baseline

N-back Task (Charlet et al., 2014)

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