Comparative study of the perception of visually and acoustically mediated prominence in healthy control subjects and persons with schizophrenia

• Conditions: F20.0; Paranoid schizophrenia

• Registration Number: DRKS00017558
• Lead Sponsor: Sonderforschungsbereich 1252: Prominenz in der Sprache

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-07-29
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Pending
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

German as mother tongue, monolingual language acquisition
- No impaired hearing
- No impaired vision
- legally effective, written declaration of consent of the respondent to participate in the study

Additional inclusion criteria for control subjects:
- no psychiatric pre-diagnosis
- no currently present psychiatric disease
- no current psychotropic medication or consumption of illegal substances

Additional inclusion criteria for persons diagnosed with schizophrenia:
- Diagnosis of schizophrenia (according to ICD.10 F20.0)
- Antipsychotic medication
- Duration of illness between zero and 25 years
- Post-acute clinical condition (PANSS = 75)

Exclusion Criteria

- Minors and persons over 65 years of age
- Current or previous diagnosis of psychiatric or neurological disease, but not ICD-10 F20.0 (schizophrenia)
- Limited vision
- Hearing impaired
- Other relevant somatic disease
- Mother tongue other than German or bilingual language acquisition
- Acute suicidal behaviour, self-endangering or risky for others: for patients CDSS Item 8: Suicidal behaviour = 2
- Missing legally effective declaration of consent, persons who are not legally capable and persons in official or judicial custody (PsychKG, BTG)

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The evaluation of the importance of objects presented in short videos for a figure also presented depends on the gaze behaviour and language of this figure.<br><br>Primary targets:<br>Group mean values of the evaluation values of both groups as well as group mean values of the reaction times, as well as the corresponding individual values.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The evaluation of the importance of objects presented in short videos for a figure also presented depends not only on the gaze behaviour and language of this figure, but also on whether the participating person has the schizophrenia diagnosis or not.<br><br>Secondary targets:<br>Group mean values of the assessment values of both groups as well as group mean values of the reaction times, as well as the corresponding individual values.