Board Game Project for Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tourette Syndrome in Adolescence; Psychosocial Functioning; Social Adjustment

Treatments: Behavioral: board game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05566236

201801998B0C501

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

board game

Experimental group

Description:

The participants received the usual standard of care(psychoeducation regarding Tourette Syndrome and one 50-mg tablet of pyridoxine daily), and they played the 60-minute parent-child board game at least once at home for consecutive 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: board game

Care as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants received the usual standard of care (psychoeducation regarding Tourette Syndrome and one 50-mg tablet of pyridoxine daily).