Clinical trial NCT05566236: Board Game Project for Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome
Official title: Study on the Effectiveness of an Evidence-based Board Game Project to Help Improve Tics and Interpersonal Interactions of Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Tourette Syndrome in Adolescence
Social Adjustment
Psychosocial Functioning
Keywords: Tourette Syndrome
Depression
social adjustment
board game
Positive mental health
Lead sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
name: Chang Gung Children's Hospital
First posted: 2022-10-04
Enrollment: 90
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using a board game to improve adolescents' tics, mental health, and interpersonal interactions.

Detailed description: This study utilizes a randomized control study design. According to the situated learning theory and qualitative research findings, this study develops a board game. This study enrolled adolescents with Tourette syndrome aged 12 to 18 as the subjects. Participants played board games at home at least once (about 60 minutes) a week for four consecutive weeks. The control group received the usual standard of care (psychoeducation regarding Tourette Syndrome and one 50-mg tablet of pyridoxine daily). The effectiveness indicators include self-reported status of positive mental health, tics severity, social adjustment, and depression by adolescents with TS.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years were diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome or chronic tics disorder by a pediatrician, according to the DSM V.
* Ability to speak and understand Mandarin.
* Adolescents and their parents were willing to participate and fill in consent forms.

Exclusion Criteria:

· Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome have mental illness and serious diseases.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Positive Mental Health Scale
timeFrame: Pre-intervention (baseline), immediately after completion of the intervention (4 weeks after baseline) and at follow-up (12 weeks post-baseline).
measure: Yale Global Tic Severity Scale
timeFrame: Pre-intervention (baseline), immediately after completion of the intervention (4 weeks after baseline) and at follow-up (12 weeks post-baseline).
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Social adjustment scale for adolescents with Tourette syndrome
timeFrame: Pre-intervention (baseline), immediately after completion of the intervention (4 weeks after baseline) and at follow-up (12 weeks post-baseline).
measure: Chinese Version Beck Youth Inventories II (depression inventory)
timeFrame: Pre-intervention (baseline), immediately after completion of the intervention (4 weeks after baseline) and at follow-up (12 weeks post-baseline).
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taoyuan City
country: Taiwan
facility: Chang Gung hospital
Study officials:
References:
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