Chess Training as add-on Intervention for Adolescents With Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders
- Conditions
- Children and Adolescents Inpatient in Psychiatric Hospital
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Chess training
- Registration Number
- NCT05698615
- Lead Sponsor
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
- Brief Summary
In the planned study, the effect of chess training on the cognitive abilities of children and adolescents with psychiatric and psychosomatic illnesses will be investigated in a naturalistic setting. Furthermore, the effects on therapy success and quality of life will be determined.Despite the thoroughly positive results, CRT has not yet been included in the official guidelines as an intervention in standard therapy; this is due, among other things, to too few studies and too little knowledge in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. The planned study aims to fill the research gap in the field of chess training as an adjunctive intervention in children and adolescents and to provide further evidence on the relevance of CRT in child and adolescent psychiatry.
The hypotheses of the proposed study are:
1. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention will improve cognitive functioning in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment.
2. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention improves quality of life in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment.
3. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention positively influences the course of therapy in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic illnesses compared to standard treatment.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 59
- Inpatient treatment at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence, ZI Mannheim
- Age between 13 and 17 years
- Sufficient ability to answer questions verbally and in written form
- Ability to give consent by patients and their parents after detailed verbal and written explanation
- Consent of patients and parents must be given in paper form
- Date of inpatient admission more than 3 weeks ago
- Withdrawal of informed consent
- Severe psychiatric, neurological and internal medical comorbidities
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Chess training group Chess training group receiving additional chess training
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in mental flexibility 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Dimensional Card Sorting Task (Zelazo et al., 2014
Change in comorbidities 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Youth Self Report (YSR, Achenbach 1991b)
Change in depressive symptoms 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II, Beck, Steer, Brown 1996)
Change in anxiety symptoms 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Beck Anyxiety Inventory (BAI, deutsche Version Margraf, Ehlers 2007)
Change in Quality of life 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training The KIDSCREEN Group Europe. (2006).
Change of the overall functional level 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Global assessment of functioning (Diagnostic screening measure according to DSM-IV)
Change in attentional capacity 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training d2 Test of Attention (Brickenkamp 2002)
Change in Reaction inhibition 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Go-No-Go Task (Sebastian et al., 2013)
Change in Fluid intelligence 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Stop Signal Task (Sebastian et al., 2013)
Change in reaction time 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training Simple Reaction Time Task (Woods, Wyma, Yund, Herron, \& Reed, 2015)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Central Institute of Mental Health
🇩🇪Mannheim, Germany