An interventional study of Emotionen Verstehen und Ausdrücken (E.V.A.) in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Conduct Disorder, sponsored by Prof. Christina Stadler. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 10 Years to 18 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-04-14.
Sponsored by Prof. Christina Stadler · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Emotion recognition and regulation are necessary skills for social interaction. Disrupted development of these processes severely interferes with socio-emotional development. These difficulties are commonly reported in patients with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Conduct Disorder (CD), with the subsequent social/interpersonal difficulties. The available evidence suggest that impaired emotion regulation processes might underlie the aggressive behaviours frequently observed in both disorders. However, no study has yet investigated the presence of disorder-specific characteristics on emotion processing between these two disorders. Different impaired emotion recognition difficulties may underlie the reported emotion dysregulation. A practical implication of this is that given that both disorders have shown difficulties during emotion recognition processes, a short, computer-based intervention to improve emotion recognition might benefit both cases, even though their aetiologies might differ.
For ASD patients, studies training facial emotion recognition have focused on increasing the active attention to the eye region, re-directing attention to facial features to facilitate facial emotion recognition. Evidence shows positive results using computer-based emotion recognition training programs with young children and adolescents with ASD. It has also been recently suggested that emotion recognition training may be a suitable intervention for patients with CD. This would be supported by some preliminary evidence in patients with severe behavioural problems, young offenders and patients with CD + CU Traits. The overall goal of this project is to investigate the compared impact of an emotion recognition training in patients with ASD or CD. This goal can be subdivided into three separate subgoals: a) identify whether the training program is effective; b) identify whether the training program has differentiated or comparable effects between both patients groups and c) investigate individual characteristics that may help identify those individuals who would benefit most from the intervention. This information is crucial to inform the design of more efficient treatments to differentially address the specific deficits associated to the disorders.
1,724 studies on the registry are indexed under Autism Spectrum Disorder; 500 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 80 is above the median of 52 across 1,368 interventional studies indexed under Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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All participants have to complete the online emotion recognition training E.V.A. as well as the pre- and post training tasks: GERT and social decision making task.
Behavioral: Emotionen Verstehen und Ausdrücken (E.V.A.)
The online training is focused on the strengthening of socioemotional competences and consists of different training tasks (up to 3 million) presented to the participant as mini games. These training tasks are specifically designed according to empirical findings to match the socio-emotional recognition needs of people with ASD. During these games, an adapted Elo-Algorithm allows to automatically evaluate the participants' performance and adapts the difficulty levels throughout the users' progress in the training.
Change in performance accuracy in Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT)
Percentage of accuracy to stimuli showing facial emotions
Time frame: Change in performance before and after the emotion recognition training, after 1 month (pre/post measure)
Change in performance response times in Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT)
Response times to stimuli showing facial emotions
Time frame: Change in performance before and after the emotion recognition training, after 1 month (pre/post measure)
Change in performance reaction times in Social decision-making task
Reaction times for each of the facial emotions shown
Time frame: Change in Performance before and after the emotion recognition training, after 1 month (pre/post measure)
Change in choices in Social decision-making task
The proportion of choices that maximise their self-gain for each of the facial emotions shown
Time frame: Change in choices before and after the emotion recognition training, after 1 month (pre/post measure)
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Start is estimated for Apr 2021; primary completion for Nov 2021, 7 months later.
Of 800 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Autism Spectrum Disorder, half reached primary completion within 25 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 48. This study's planned 7 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 823 studies reached it within 25 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 47.
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