Evaluation of a smartphone-app-supported intervention (AUTHARK) combined with the multimodal treatment program for children with aggressive behaviour (THAV) and the social computer based competence training for children with aggressive behaviour (ScouT) in comparison to the treatment programs THAV and ScouT without smartphone-app support.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

Conditions: Affective Dysregulation
F91.3
Oppositional defiant disorder

Registration Number: DRKS00015625

Lead Sponsor: Ausbildungsinstitut für Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie der Uniklinik Köln (Akip)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

One of the inclusion criteria is the clinical diagnosis of ODD (ICD-10: F91.3). Furthermore, children had to show peer-related aggressive behavior causing persistent impairment of relationships with other children (clinical rating on the basis of a semi-structured interview) and a high total score (Stanine = 7) in parent rating on the Symptom Checklist for Disruptive Behavior Disorder (SCL-DBD) of the DISYPS-III (Döpfner et al., 2016).

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are the presence of a primary comorbid disorder (e.g., autism) according to the judgment of the clinician, an IQ score below 80 (CFT 1-R, CFT 20-R) or crises that indicate inpatient treatment, a planned change in medication in a child receiving psychotropic medication, other child psychotherapy, and parents or caregivers who do not speak sufficient German.

Study & Design

Study Type: interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The experimental group THAV/ScouT+AUTHARK will show a significantly stronger improvement in compliance than the control group THAV/ScouT. Compliance means the implementation of therapy tasks in everyday life. A questionnaire assesses the compliance (FB Compliance). With the questionnaire on treatment compliance, the therapist can assess the cooperation of the child and the parents as well as the use of the app or homework compliance after each therapy session. For the study, the compliance questionnaire according to Görtz-Dorten & Döpfner (2008) was modified. An empirical analysis of the original questionnaire version showed internal consistencies between a = .948 or a = .954 for children and a= .968 or a = .965 for parents (Faber, 2014; Stadler, 2018). The modified version contains 25 items, which were extended by the usage recording of the individual app functions or the completion of the daily self-observations and the evaluation of the entry quality.

Secondary Outcome Measures