NCT02866422

Development of an Instrument That Monitors Behaviors Associated With OCD

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Minnesota · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To support the discovery of new means for revealing the presence of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), facilitating detection through new technology-based metrics, and attempt to automate existing diagnostic procedures allowing for more efficient diagnostic methods that would broaden clinical scope and outreach.

Detailed description

Aim 1: To observe and compare childhood behaviors regarding handwashing in OCD and control populations Hypothesis 1: Control participants will spend less time washing their hands, will wash them less frequently, and will be less preoccupied with the sink when doing other activities. Aim 2: To observe and compare childhood behaviors regarding organizing a cluttered area. Hypothesis 2: OCD participants will be more disturbed by the presence of clutter and more compelled to organize the items than control participants Aim 3: To observe and compare childhood behaviors regarding turning on/off light switches Hypothesis 3: OCD children will be more likely to exhibit compulsive repetitive behaviors regarding the light switch than control participants

Conditions

• OCD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No Intervention	Observational Study: No intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2016-08-15
• Last updated: 2016-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States