Variance of Video Games Playing Patterns Among Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders - Full Text View

Purpose

As the use of video games (VG) is rapidly increasing, many studies have tries to understand the effects of VG on the children and adolescents playing them.

Most of the research was directed towards negative effects (especially violence, attention and school performance), producing mixed results.

Recently, more studies had focused their attention on the opposite angle: The influence of the player's mental and behavioral parameters, influencing his VG playing patterns. The focus of most of these researches was time of playing, addictive patterns and exposure to violence.

The current study will try to characterize the variance of VG playing pattern among adolescents diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, in order to better under the rich interaction between a player and his VG, and to understand whether VG playing patterns holds diagnostical clues for the child's diagnosis and his inner world.

Condition	Intervention
ADHD Conduct Depression Anxiety PDD	Behavioral: Video Game

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Non-Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
Official Title:	Variance of Video Games Playing Patterns Among Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders: Diagnostical and Dynamic Meanings

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Anxiety Child Mental Health Depression Mental Disorders

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Shalvata Mental Health Center:

Estimated Enrollment:	100
Study Start Date:	July 2012
Estimated Study Completion Date:	July 2013
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	July 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Anxiety and Depression Adolescents diagnosed with anxiety and/or depression	Behavioral: Video Game Playing various video games: RPG, Race, FPS, Strategy Other Names: Video Games Computer Games RPG Role Playing Games FPS First Person Shooter Strategy
Active Comparator: ADD Adolescents diagnosed with ADD (without hyperactive element)	Behavioral: Video Game Playing various video games: RPG, Race, FPS, Strategy Other Names: Video Games Computer Games RPG Role Playing Games FPS First Person Shooter Strategy
Active Comparator: ADHD, Behavioral Adolescents diagnosed with ADHD (with hyperactivity), with or without behavioral problems	Behavioral: Video Game Playing various video games: RPG, Race, FPS, Strategy Other Names: Video Games Computer Games RPG Role Playing Games FPS First Person Shooter Strategy
Active Comparator: PDD Adolescents diagnosed with PDD Spectrum Disorders	Behavioral: Video Game Playing various video games: RPG, Race, FPS, Strategy Other Names: Video Games Computer Games RPG Role Playing Games FPS First Person Shooter Strategy
Active Comparator: Control Adolescents without a psychiatric diagnosis	Behavioral: Video Game Playing various video games: RPG, Race, FPS, Strategy Other Names: Video Games Computer Games RPG Role Playing Games FPS First Person Shooter Strategy

Detailed Description:

The participants will be asked to attend 2 session, 2 hours each, at 3-14 days interval.

At the first session, after signing consent form, will asked to fill out questionaires regarding demographic data, personality, empathy trait, aggression state and trait and computer games usage.

also, they will be asked to complete HTP and TAT psycho-diagnostic tests. Then, using heart rate variability (HRV) and Galvanic skin response (GSR), monitor of sympathetic tonus will be measured while playing a shooting and race game.

At the end of the first session, they will be asked to fill additional aggression state questionaire.

On the second session, monitored by HRV and GSR, they will be asked to play a role playing game (RPG) and real-time strategy game (RTS). At the end of session, they will be asked to fill additional aggression state questionaire.

Parameters of playing patterns collected from the VG will be recorded and analyzed.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	13 Years to 18 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Male
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Age 13-18
Diagnosis matching one of the defined research arms, made by a childhood and adolescents psychiatry specialist
Playing various computer games regularly, for at least 2 years
Informed consent has been given by the minor and his parents

Exclusion Criteria:

Organic sensory depravation (blindness, deafness)
Motor dysfunction, relevant of using keyboard, mouse or remote
Additional psychiatric diagnosis, apart the one matching the arm to which he was allocated
Using illicit drugs during the previous 48 hours

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01621815

Contacts

Contact: Aviv Segev, MD	972-9-7478-644	aviv.segev@clalit.org.il
Contact: Yuval Bloch, MD	972-9-7478-510	yuvalbl@clalit.org.il

Locations

Israel
Shalvata MHC	Not yet recruiting
Hod HaSharon, Israel
Contact: Aviv Segev, MD 972-9-7478-644 aviv.segev@clalit.org.il
Principal Investigator: Aviv Segev, MD
Sub-Investigator: Yuval Bloch, MD

Sponsors and Collaborators

Shalvata Mental Health Center

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Aviv Segev, MD

Shalvata MHC

More Information

No publications provided

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT01621815 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	SH-12-13
Study First Received:	June 14, 2012
Last Updated:	June 14, 2012
Health Authority:	Israel: Ministry of Health

Keywords provided by Shalvata Mental Health Center:

ADHD
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Conduct
Depression

Anxiety
PDD
Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Anxiety Disorders
Mental Disorders
Depression
Depressive Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

Behavioral Symptoms
Mood Disorders
Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Mental Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013