NCT01541150

Impaired Decision Making in Pedophilic Offenders

Neuropsychological Approach of Pedophilic Behaviors, a Pilot Study in a Population of Inmates Pedophilic Offenders

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Pedophilic behaviors represent a public health problem with serious consequences. The investigators hypothesize a disruption in the decision-making strategies among sex offenders pedophiles. Highlight this type of abnormality would offer a specific treatment of a possible neuropsychological deficit (with cognitive remediation for instance) and perhaps avoid recurrences of this type of behavior.

Detailed description

Cross-sectional study, comparing a group of 64 pedophilic offenders inmates condamned with a group of 64 volunteers non-pedophiles matched by age and level of study.

Conditions

• Pedophilia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	neuropsychological questionnaires	Due to this study population (inmates), the investigators have decided to classify the protocol as and interventionnal study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-08-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2012-02-29
• Last updated: 2014-12-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France