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Internet-based Behaviour Therapy for Tourette's Disorder and Chronic Tic Disorder

NCT02864589 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 23

Last updated 2018-03-06

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of two different modalities of therapist-guided Internet-delivered behaviour therapy (IBT) for children and adolescents (7-17 years) with Tourette's Disorder (TD) or Persistent (Chronic) Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder (PTD).

Conditions

  • Tourette's Disorder
  • Persistent (Chronic) Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Internet-delivered habit reversal training

The I-HRT group will receive a 10-week therapist-guided, parent-assisted, Internet-delivered behavioural treatment. The treatment is based on existing literature on habit reversal training (i.e. Woods, D.W. (2008). Managing Tourette syndrome: A behavioral intervention for children and adults therapist guide. OUP, USA.) with added interactive features as videos and illustrations. In short, the participants practice to become more aware of their tics and inhibit them by performing competing responses (movements). The treatment is therapist guided: the participants have regular (up to 5 days a week) contact with a personally assigned therapist via written text in the platform and occasionally via the telephone. The children and parents have separate logins and access partly different content.

BEHAVIORAL

Internet-delivered exposure and response prevention

The I-ERP group receives a 10-week therapist-guided, parent-assisted, Internet-delivered behavioural treatment. The treatment is based on existing literature on exposure and response prevention (i.e. Verdellen, C. et al. (2011). Tics: Therapist manual \& workbook for children. Boom, Amsterd.) with added interactive features as videos and illustrations. In short, the participants practice to suppress their tics for longer and longer times, at the same time as premonitory urges are intentionally provoked. The treatment is therapist-guided: the children and parents have regular (up to 5 days a week) contact with a personally assigned therapist via written text in the platform and occasionally via the telephone. The children and parents have separate logins and access partly different content.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • David Mataix-Cols, Professor · Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2018-01-31
Completion
2018-01-31

Countries

  • Sweden

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