Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents With Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Enrollment
- 20
- Primary Endpoint
- Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Internet-based psychotherapy for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive symptoms and an age of 7 to 17 years. Sessions are verified with teleconferencing with an psychotherapist, children and their parents. The psychotherapy is supported by an App and a wristband to obtain psychophysiological data.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 7 Years to 17 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Children and adolescents (ages 7-17) with a primary DSM-5 obsessive-compulsive disorder and at least 1 primary caretaker
- •German-speaking (child & caretakers)
- •Family home equipped with broadband connection and appropriate computer, monitor, HD webcam, and speaker and smart phone
Exclusion Criteria
- •IQ below 70
- •A psychiatric comorbidity that makes participation clinically inappropriate (for example, primary anorexia nervosa), depression with suicidality that requires acute treatment, and psychosis
Arms & Interventions
Internet-based psychotherapy
Intervention: Cognitive-bahavioral psychotherapy (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
Time Frame: beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks)
How the day was
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy process (14 weeks)
assessed by App
Heart rate variability
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks)
assessed with wristband
Body movements
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks)
assessed with wristband
Impairment by OCD symptoms
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy process (14 weeks)
assessed by App
Body temperature
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks)
assessed with wristband
The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL)
Time Frame: beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks)
The Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS)
Time Frame: beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks)
Extend of avoidance behavior
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy process (14 weeks)
assessed by App
How Every week throughout the therapy processgood e progress was with specific treatment goals
Time Frame: Every week throughout the therapy process (14 weeks)
assessed by App
Anxiety ratings during exposures
Time Frame: Every week three days beginning with session 4 up to 14
assessed by App
Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS)
Time Frame: beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks)
Questionnaire for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents (KINDL)
Time Frame: beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks)
Daily mood
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy process (14 weeks)
assessed by App
How strong OCD is
Time Frame: Every week throughout the therapy process (14 weeks)
assessed by App
Skin conductance level
Time Frame: Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks)
assessed with wristband
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
PD Dr. Annette Conzelmann
PD Dr. Annette Conzelmann
University Hospital Tuebingen