Developmental pathways to psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and antisocial behaviour

Recruiting

Conditions: psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder
10034726

Registration Number: NL-OMON30345

Lead Sponsor: niversiteit Maastricht

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 240

Inclusion Criteria

Group 1: Conduct Disorder, childhood-onset type (before the age of 10), with CU-traits;Group 2: Conduct Disorder, childhood-onset type (before the age of 10), without CU-traits ;Group 3: Conduct Disorder, adolescence-onset type (after the age of 10);Group 4: absence of psychiatric disorders (control group)

Exclusion Criteria

Group 1: psychiatric disorders other than CD (with the exception of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)), absence of CU-triats, IQ lower than 80, brain damage, drug and /or alcohol use 24 hours before testing;Group 2: psychiatric disorders other than CD (with the exception of ODD), presence of CU-triats, IQ lower than 80, brain damage, drug and /or alcohol use 24 hours before testing;Group 3: psychiatric disorders other than CD (with the exception of ODD), diagnosis of CD before age 10, presence of CU-traits, IQ lower than 80, brain damage, drug and /or alcohol use 24 hours before testing;Group 4: presence of any psychiatric disorder including CD, presence of CU-triats, IQ lower than 80, brain damage, drug and /or alcohol use 24 hours before testing

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p> Children who meet the determined in- and exclusion criteria will receive an<br /><br>information letter including a registration form, which they can send to the<br /><br>University. Children who send back the registration form will be contacted to<br /><br>make an appointment.<br /><br>Control participants will be approached on the matter by secondary<br /><br>schools (e.g., Maastricht, Heerlen and Sittard). We will make an appointment<br /><br>with the headmaster(s) to explain our study and to ask for permission to<br /><br>hand-out information letters and registration forms in the classes . The<br /><br>students can send the form back to the university if they want to participate<br /><br>and will afterwards be contacted.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures