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Variance of Video Games Playing Patterns Among Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders

NCT01621815 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2015-05-20

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Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Video Game

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shalvata Mental Health Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aviv Segev, MD · Shalvata MHC

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-01-31
Completion
2015-01-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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