Chess Training as add-on Intervention for Adolescents With Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 59
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in mental flexibility
Study Overview
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:
- chess training as a six-week add-on intervention will improve cognitive functioning in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment.
- chess training as a six-week add-on intervention improves quality of life in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment.
- 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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Non Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 13 Years to 17 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •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
Exclusion Criteria
- •Date of inpatient admission more than 3 weeks ago
- •Withdrawal of informed consent
- •Severe psychiatric, neurological and internal medical comorbidities
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in mental flexibility
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Dimensional Card Sorting Task (Zelazo et al., 2014
Change in comorbidities
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Youth Self Report (YSR, Achenbach 1991b)
Change in depressive symptoms
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II, Beck, Steer, Brown 1996)
Change in anxiety symptoms
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Beck Anyxiety Inventory (BAI, deutsche Version Margraf, Ehlers 2007)
Change in Quality of life
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
The KIDSCREEN Group Europe. (2006).
Change of the overall functional level
Time Frame: 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
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
d2 Test of Attention (Brickenkamp 2002)
Change in Reaction inhibition
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Go-No-Go Task (Sebastian et al., 2013)
Change in Fluid intelligence
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Stop Signal Task (Sebastian et al., 2013)
Change in reaction time
Time Frame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Simple Reaction Time Task (Woods, Wyma, Yund, Herron, \& Reed, 2015)
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported