Impaired Decision Making in Pedophilic Offenders

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 4

Conditions: Pedophilia

Treatments: Behavioral: neuropsychological questionnaires

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01541150

2011-A00402-39 (Other Identifier)

8673

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pedophilic behaviors represent a public health problem with serious consequences. The investigators hypothesize a disruption in the decision-making strategies among sex offenders pedophiles. Highlight this type of abnormality would offer a specific treatment of a possible neuropsychological deficit (with cognitive remediation for instance) and perhaps avoid recurrences of this type of behavior.

Full description

Cross-sectional study, comparing a group of 64 pedophilic offenders inmates condamned with a group of 64 volunteers non-pedophiles matched by age and level of study.

Enrollment: 128 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• For the controls, lack of diagnosis of disorders of sexual behavior (paraphilias) current or past (DSM IV)

• For the pedophilic offenders:

  • Placement and conviction for rape or sexual assault of a minor under 15 years
  • Recognition of the facts
  • Existence of a current or past diagnosis of pedophilia (according to the DSM IV).

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of a current major depressive episode (DSM IV - MINI)
• History of cerebral neurological disorder or a cranial trauma with loss of consciousness current
• IGT test already done
• Schizophrenia or Other current psychotic disorders(according to the criteria DSM IV of MINI test).
• taking psychoactive drug

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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128 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

patient suffering pedophilia

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group is the active comparator because patients suffering pedophilia with neuropsychological questionnaires

Treatment:

Behavioral: neuropsychological questionnaires

control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This group is the placebo comparator

Treatment:

Behavioral: neuropsychological questionnaires