Traumatized youths in residential care: Exploring the dysregulation of biological stress systems and testing a gamified relaxation intervention.

Completed

• Conditions: autonomic nervous system activity; hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system activity; trauma; cardiovascular activity; cortisol activity; 10037173

• Registration Number: NL-OMON43297
• Lead Sponsor: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 28 February 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 135

Inclusion Criteria

Both clinical and control sample:
- age between 10 and 18 years
- being able to speak the Dutch language, to ensure that participants can understand the task instructions and questionnaires, are able to give informed consent or assent, and can participate in the diagnostic interview;Clinical sample:
- admitted to residential treatment within youth mental health care, the youth welfare system or care for youth with intellectual disability (ID)
- score of 30 or higher on the CRIES-13, a questionnaire to screen for posttraumatic symptoms

Exclusion Criteria

Both clinical and control sample:
- current or recent (within the last 3 months) EMDR or CBT treatment specifically targeting post-traumatic symptoms
- simultaneous participation in another clinical intervention study
- psychotic symptoms
- negative clinician advice, for example the clinician fears that participation in the study would have negative effects on the participant or that the participants has not the capacities to take part in the study (we have no exclusion criteria based on IQ, to promote external generalizability);Control sample:
- presence of any Axis I disorder
- current or recent (withing the last 3 months) psychological treatment

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The focus of this project is on the one hand on the parameters of the HPA axis<br /><br>(i.e. cortisol) and ANS activity (i.e. RSA and PEP), both under resting and<br /><br>social stress conditions. On the other hand, we focus on posttraumatic<br /><br>symptoms, stress, depression, anxiety, and aggression.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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