Correlating Real and Virtual World Behavioral Fluctuations in Adolescence

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title:

Correlating Real and Virtual World Behavioral Fluctuations in Adolescence

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02281825
• Other study ID #: sha-0001-14
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 29, 2014
• Last updated: April 13, 2016
• Start date: November 2014
• Est. completion date: February 2016

Study information

• Verified date: April 2016
• Source: Shalvata Mental Health Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: February 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 13 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

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.

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
• Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
• Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
• Conduct
• Depression
• Disease
• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
• Hyperkinesis
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Shalvata MHC	Hod Hasharon

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Shalvata Mental Health Center	University of Haifa

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Impulsivity manifested within game-play	In-Game kill/Stealth ratio	3 weeks	No
Primary	Activity manifested within game-play	In-Game number of missions and sub-mission attained	3 weeks	No
Primary	Aggresion manifested within game-play	In-Game aimed killing	3 weeks	No