Correlating Real and Virtual World Behavioral Fluctuations in Adolescence

Shalvata Mental Health Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder; Oppositional Defiant Disorder; Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder; Conduct; Depression; Anxiety

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02281825

sha-0001-14

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study will explore a new approach to ongoing evaluation and monitoring of fluctuations in personality traits via commercial video games. The aim of this longitudinal study is to examine the influence of everyday life event on video games performance as a function of individual differences in gaming behavioral patterns. focusing on the ongoing performance vacillations of the patient on commercial video games will offer insights in to possibly new generation of real time assessment medium of ongoing behavior.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All subjects will have normal or corrected to normal vision with no sensory/motor disturbance
• An accessible computer at the house hold
• Previous experience in playing computer games.

Exclusion criteria

• drug abuse
• head injury
• living in a boarding school and a major psychiatric or neurological disorder.

Trial design

20 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

Description:

Adolescents without any psychiatric disorder

Study

Description:

Adolescents with psychiatric disorder of the following: Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct, Oppositional defiant Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder