Role of Self-focused Attention in Depression (RFASD)

Centre Hospitalier Henri Laborit

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Eye tracker

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05464550

2021-A01098-33

Details and patient eligibility

About

Using a task measuring the tracking of eye movements, the aim of this study is to demonstrate that individuals suffering from depression focus their attention more on their reflection in the screen after recalling a failure (and this all the more so as their depressive symptomatology is strong) .

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with depressive disorders according to the Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) criteria
• Men or women, aged 18 to 60
• patients without mental impairment
• patients without neurological impairment (epilepsy, encephalopathy, head trauma)
• patients with a sufficient command of French
• free patients, without guardianship or curators or subordination
• patients benefiting from coverage by a social security scheme or benefiting from it through a third party in accordance with the French law on biomedical research
• obtaining oral non-objection by the patient after clear and honest information about the study
• Patient with normal or corrected vision without rigid contact lenses

Exclusion criteria

• patients with an intelligence quotient < 70
• patients aged < 18 years or > 60 years
• patients with mental impairment
• patients with neurological impairment (epilepsy, encephalopathy, head trauma)
• patients who do not speak French well enough
• patients hospitalized under duress
• patients without social security
• Patient wearing rigid contact lenses

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Eye tracking

Experimental group

Description:

Utilisation of a eye tracker on a screen.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Eye tracker