Clinical Trial: Prevalence of Dissociative Disorders in Children

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Prevalence of Dissociative Disorders in Children in a Population Supported in the Medico-social and Health Structures in Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur

Brief Summary:

Schizophrenia beginning before 18 years is a clinical entity not well known because of its low incidence and difficulties in the clinical diagnosis.

However, in the investigators clinical practice, due to the specialization of the investigators service, the investigators are led to hospital to receive important feel active of patients meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV text revision (DSM IV-TR) precose schizophrenia.

The work of us team on the theme of the relationship between Pervasive Developmental Disorders and precose Schizophrenia led us to hypothesize that a number of children in care in the medical and educational institutes, hospitals and day shelters therapeutic part-time symptoms of schizophrenia or a line real early diagnosis of schizophrenia undervalued or not diagnosed.

The main goal is to estimate the prevalence of dissociative disorders in a population of children in care institutions and medical education in child psychiatry in hospitals and others structures.


Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Current Primary Outcome: Rate of children diagnosed with dissociative disorders [ Time Frame: between 2 and 4 hours depending children ]

Rate of children diagnosed with dissociative disorders: children positive for the test Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (Kiddie-SADS).


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

  • Percentage of children positive for test: Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revise (ADI-R). [ Time Frame: 1 day on average ]
  • Scores of three dimensions of schizophrenia in the Positive And Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) [ Time Frame: 4 hours ]
    3 dimensions: positive symptoms, negative symptoms and general psychopathology, based on these scores the diagnostic subtype of schizophrenia is established.
  • Score at the Test Lillois de Communication (TLC) [ Time Frame: 30 minutes ]
  • Score on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC IV)subtests and overall intelligence quotient (IQ). [ Time Frame: 4 hours ]
  • Response time to test verbal fluency, scores on the Trail Making Test A (TMT) and TMT B. [ Time Frame: 30 minutes ]


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Dates:
Date Received: December 13, 2011
Date Started: December 2011
Date Completion:
Last Updated: January 31, 2014
Last Verified: January 2014