Variance of Video Games Playing Patterns Among Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders

As the use of video games (VG) is rapidly increasing, many studies have tries to understand the effects of VG on the children and adolescents playing them.

Most of the research was directed towards negative effects (especially violence, attention and school performance), producing mixed results.

Recently, more studies had focused their attention on the opposite angle: The influence of the player's mental and behavioral parameters, influencing his VG playing patterns. The focus of most of these researches was time of playing, addictive patterns and exposure to violence.

The current study will try to characterize the variance of VG playing pattern among adolescents diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, in order to better under the rich interaction between a player and his VG, and to understand whether VG playing patterns holds diagnostical clues for the child's diagnosis and his inner world.

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Key information

Conditions

ADHD Anxiety Anxiety Disorders Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Child Development Disorders, Pervasive Conduct Depression Mental Disorders Neurodevelopmental Disorders PDD

Age range

13 year–18 year

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Shalvata MHC

Hod HaSharon, Israel

About this study

The participants will be asked to attend 2 session, 2 hours each, at 3-14 days interval.

At the first session, after signing consent form, will asked to fill out questionaires regarding demographic data, personality, empathy trait, aggression state and trait and computer games usage.

also, they will be asked to complete HTP and TAT psycho-diagnostic tests. Then, using heart rate variability (HRV) and Galvanic skin response (GSR), monitor of sympathetic tonus will be measured while playing a shooting and race game.

At the end of the first session, they will be asked to fill additional aggression state questionaire.

On the second session, monitored by HRV and GSR, they will be asked to play a role playing game (RPG) and real-time strategy game (RTS). At the end of session, they will be asked to fill additional aggression state questionaire.

Parameters of playing patterns collected from the VG will be recorded and analyzed.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Age 13-18
Diagnosis matching one of the defined research arms, made by a childhood and adolescents psychiatry specialist
Playing various computer games regularly, for at least 2 years
Informed consent has been given by the minor and his parents

Exclusion criteria

Organic sensory depravation (blindness, deafness)
Motor dysfunction, relevant of using keyboard, mouse or remote
Additional psychiatric diagnosis, apart the one matching the arm to which he was allocated
Using illicit drugs during the previous 48 hours

Treatment and study plan

Video game

Behavioral

Playing various video games: RPG, Race, FPS, Strategy

Other names: Video Games, Computer Games, RPG, Role Playing Games, FPS, First Person Shooter, Strategy

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Shalvata Mental Health Center

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Variance of Video Games Playing Patterns Among Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders: Diagnostical and Dynamic Meanings

Important dates

Study start: 2012
Primary completion: 2015
Study completion: 2015
First posted: Jun 18, 2012
Registry last updated: May 20, 2015

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