NCT04087616

Internet-based CBIT for Children With Chronic Tics

Internet-based -Guided Self-help Intervention for Children With Chronic Tics Syndrome or Tourette Syndrome: Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) Versus Waiting List: Reduction of Tic Severity and Quality of Life Measures

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tel Aviv Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To evaluate the effect and acceptability of an Internet-based comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics (ICBIT) in a sample of children and adolescents with Tic disorders. children and adolescents (aged 8-17 years) with Tourette Syndrome (TS) or Chronic Tic Disorder (CTD) and their parents will be randomly assigned to receive either an Internet-based ICBIT or wait-list (WL).

Detailed description

To evaluate the effect and acceptability of an Internet-based comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics (ICBIT) in a sample of children and adolescents with Tic disorders, children and adolescents (aged 8-17 years) with Tourette Syndrome (TS) or Chronic Tic Disorder (CTD) and their parents will be randomly assigned to receive either an Internet-based ICBIT or wait-list (WL) condition in a cross over design. Participants will be randomized to ICBIT, or to wait list, and half will cross over from wait list to ICBT. Two blind independent clinical evaluators will rate tic severity and comorbidity. The primary outcome measure is the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS). Assessments will be performed at baseline, post-ICBT or post wait list, 3-months and 6-months (post-treatment for those originally assigned to ICBT) and post-ICBT, 3-months and 6-months (post-treatment for those originally assigned to wait list condition). All assessments were conducted by 2 PhD level independent child psychologists.

Conditions

• Tourette Syndrome in Children
• Tourette Syndrome in Adolescence
• Chronic Tic Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ICBIT	The intervention consists of 9 modules delivered over 9 weeks comprise of age-appropriate texts and descriptive diagrams, animations, films of clinicians demonstrating techniques such as competing response exercising.
BEHAVIORAL	waiting list	Participants initially assigned to the wait list received no psychosocial intervention for 9 weeks. Following post-WL assessment, all participants chose to receive ICBIT.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-31
• Completion: 2020-05-01
• First posted: 2019-09-12
• Last updated: 2019-09-12

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Israel