Mood radar: A technical aid in monitoring upcoming challenging behavior. Discovering dependable predictors of upcoming challenging behaviour in people with a mental disability. Measuring physiology of clients and their caretakers in natural situations. Viewing Challenging behaviour from a bio-physiological transactional model.

Mood Radar: A technical aid in monitoring upcoming challenging behavior. Discovering dependable predictors of upcoming challenging behaviour in people with a mental disability. Measuring physiology of clients and their caretakers in natural situations. Viewing Challenging behaviour from a bio-physiological transactional model.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON28283

Enrollment

Registered

2011-08-17

Start date

2011-09-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-03-24

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

challenging behavior

Interventions

None. Mood radar is an explorative, observational study. No interventions will be made.

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: For the clients the main inclusion criteria is the actual occurrence of challenging behaviour. This is operationalized through scores of 3 or 4 on the “Consensprotocol Ernstig Probleemgedrag” (Kramer, 1995). For the caretakers the inclusion criteria is having to work with the above mentioned client group.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Medication use which severely and directly influence arousallevels for example lang term working benzodiazepines.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Skin conductance, heart rate variability and occurrence of challenging behaviour will be measured on both the client and the caretaker in the natural situation.	—

Contacts

Public ContactM.E. Laroy

Oldenzaalsestraat 134

marleen.laroy@dtzc.nl

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)