Psychotherapy Intervention Evaluation
Conditions
Keywords
cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, internet-based
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCognitive-bahavioral psychotherapy
Sponsors
University Hospital Tuebingen
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
7 Years to 17 Years
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Extend of avoidance behavior | Every day throughout the therapy process (14 weeks) | assessed by App |
| Daily mood | Every day throughout the therapy process (14 weeks) | assessed by App |
| How the day was | Every day throughout the therapy process (14 weeks) | assessed by App |
| How strong OCD is | Every week throughout the therapy process (14 weeks) | assessed by App |
| The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL) | beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks) | — |
| The Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) | beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks) | — |
| Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) | beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks) | — |
| Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) | beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks) | — |
| Questionnaire for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents (KINDL) | beginning of the study and end therapy (about 16 weeks) | — |
| Impairment by OCD symptoms | 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 | Every week throughout the therapy process (14 weeks) | assessed by App |
| Anxiety ratings during exposures | Every week three days beginning with session 4 up to 14 | assessed by App |
| Heart rate variability | Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks) | assessed with wristband |
| Skin conductance level | Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks) | assessed with wristband |
| Body temperature | Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks) | assessed with wristband |
| Body movements | Every day throughout the therapy (14 weeks) | assessed with wristband |
Contacts
Primary ContactAnnette Conzelmann, PhD
Outcome results
None listed