Clinical trial NCT05698615: Chess Training as add-on Intervention for Adolescents With Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders
Official title: Chess Training as add-on Intervention for Adolescents With Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Children and Adolescents Inpatient in Psychiatric Hospital
Keywords: cognitive remediation
Chess training
working memory
decision making
executiv control
chess
cognitive change
Quality of life in adolescents
Lead sponsor: Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Munich Chess academy
First posted: 2023-01-26
Enrollment: 59
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: After inclusion in the study, participation in chess training begins after screening. Patients who have volunteered for chess training are then matched with patients for the comparison group. Care is taken to ensure that this group is similar to the chess group in terms of diagnoses and age ("pairwise matching").
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: In the planned study, the effect of chess training on the cognitive abilities of children and adolescents with psychiatric and psychosomatic illnesses will be investigated in a naturalistic setting. Furthermore, the effects on therapy success and quality of life will be determined.Despite the thoroughly positive results, CRT has not yet been included in the official guidelines as an intervention in standard therapy; this is due, among other things, to too few studies and too little knowledge in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. The planned study aims to fill the research gap in the field of chess training as an adjunctive intervention in children and adolescents and to provide further evidence on the relevance of CRT in child and adolescent psychiatry.

The hypotheses of the proposed study are:

1. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention will improve cognitive functioning in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment.
2. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention improves quality of life in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment.
3. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention positively influences the course of therapy in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic illnesses compared to standard treatment.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Inpatient treatment at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence, ZI Mannheim
* Age between 13 and 17 years
* Sufficient ability to answer questions verbally and in written form
* Ability to give consent by patients and their parents after detailed verbal and written explanation
* Consent of patients and parents must be given in paper form

Exclusion Criteria:

* Date of inpatient admission more than 3 weeks ago
* Withdrawal of informed consent
* Severe psychiatric, neurological and internal medical comorbidities

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in comorbidities
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in depressive symptoms
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in anxiety symptoms
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in Quality of life
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change of the overall functional level
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in mental flexibility
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in attentional capacity
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in Reaction inhibition
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in Fluid intelligence
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
measure: Change in reaction time
timeFrame: 2 time points: before and after 6 weeks chess training
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mannheim
country: Germany
facility: Central Institute of Mental Health
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