Factors Influencing Selective Mutism

Susanne Walitza

Status

Completed

Conditions

Selective Mutism

Treatments

Behavioral: Psychometric questionnaire study

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04233905

KJPP 2017-00679

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study's goal is to check and verify basic assumptions of a new selective mutism developmental model from Melfsen and Walitza through standardized and routinely used patient questionnaires. The primary emphasis is the question of a connection between selective mutism and high sensitivity, dissociation, emotional regulation, family structure, social anxiety and self-esteem.

Enrollment

92 patients

Sex

All

Ages

8 to 18 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children and young people from 8-18 years of age who fulfill the international classification of diseases tenth edition (ICD-10) for selective mutism
Adults who suffered selective mutism when they were children or adolescents
All study participants or their legal representative have given written permission for their experiences to be documented in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Temporary mutism, e.g. from emotional disturbances or separation anxiety (F93.0), or depression
Profound developmental disturbances (F84.2) like early childhood autism (F84.0), atypical autism (F84.1), Rett Syndrome (F84.2), alternative disintegrative childhood disturbances (F84.3), hyperactivity disturbance with decrease of intelligence and movement stereotypes (F84.5), or Asperger's Syndrome.
Schizophrenia (F20)
Profound mental retardation
Delineated development disturbances of speech and language (F80)
Organic brain disease with loss of language or disturbance of speech development