Naturalistic Assessment of Social Cognition in People with Epilepsy: Evaluation of Video-Based Assessment Tools

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00041037

Enrollment

Registered

2026-07-21

Start date

2026-08-10

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-08-03

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Conditions

G40

Interventions

Group 1: Individuals with focal/generalized epilepsy recruited during inpatient admission to the Epilepsy Center Marburg - Administration of video-based and static social cognition assessment tools -

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - Confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy (TLE, FLE, IGE) - Ability to understand the patient information sheet and provide written informed consent - Written informed consent for voluntary participation in the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - Neurodegenerative disease - Intellectual disability - Current or past moderate to severe psychiatric disorder - Autism spectrum disorder - Legal guardianship

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Video-based Emotion Recognition Test: Basel version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test – Emotion Recognition (BASIT-ER) -Association with an established emotion recognition measure to assess convergent validity (MiniSEA-FERT) -Association with measures of cognitive functioning, particularly attention and executive functions, to assess divergent validity (EpiTrack) Video-based Theory of Mind Test: Basel version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test – Theory of Mind (BASIT-ToM) -Association with an established emotion recognition measure to assess convergent validity (MiniSEA-FPT) -Association with measures of cognitive functioning, particularly attention and executive functions, to assess divergent validity (EpiTrack) Data will be collected at a single time point per participant.	—

Measure

Time frame

Video-based Emotion Recognition Test: Basel version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test – Emotion Recognition (BASIT-ER) -Association with an established emotion recognition measure to assess convergent validity (MiniSEA-FERT) -Association with measures of cognitive functioning, particularly attention and executive functions, to assess divergent validity (EpiTrack) Video-based Theory of Mind Test: Basel version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test – Theory of Mind (BASIT-ToM) -Association with an established emotion recognition measure to assess convergent validity (MiniSEA-FPT) -Association with measures of cognitive functioning, particularly attention and executive functions, to assess divergent validity (EpiTrack) Data will be collected at a single time point per participant.

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
- Association between performance on BASIT-ER and BASIT-ToM and sociodemographic as well as epilepsy-related variables - Association between BASIT-ToM performance and a self-report measure of perspective-taking and empathy to assess ecological validity - Association between performance on BASIT-ER and BASIT-ToM and depressive symptoms - Association between BASIT-ToM performance and performance on a language comprehension control task	—

Measure

Time frame

- Association between performance on BASIT-ER and BASIT-ToM and sociodemographic as well as epilepsy-related variables - Association between BASIT-ToM performance and a self-report measure of perspective-taking and empathy to assess ecological validity - Association between performance on BASIT-ER and BASIT-ToM and depressive symptoms - Association between BASIT-ToM performance and performance on a language comprehension control task

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Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactEva-Maria Haust

Philipps-Universität Marburg

hauste@staff.uni-marburg.de+49 6421 5864329

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 10, 2026