iCBT for Children and Adolescents With Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

University Hospital Tuebingen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Psychotherapy Intervention Evaluation

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive-bahavioral psychotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02973932

F.1331477

Details and patient eligibility

About

Internet-based psychotherapy for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive symptoms and an age of 7 to 17 years. Sessions are verified with teleconferencing with an psychotherapist, children and their parents. The psychotherapy is supported by an App and a wristband to obtain psychophysiological data.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children and adolescents (ages 7-17) with a primary DSM-5 obsessive-compulsive disorder and at least 1 primary caretaker
• German-speaking (child & caretakers)
• Family home equipped with broadband connection and appropriate computer, monitor, HD webcam, and speaker and smart phone

Exclusion criteria

• IQ below 70
• A psychiatric comorbidity that makes participation clinically inappropriate (for example, primary anorexia nervosa), depression with suicidality that requires acute treatment, and psychosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Internet-based psychotherapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive-bahavioral psychotherapy