NCT04233905

Factors Influencing Selective Mutism

A Psychometric Questionnaire Study With a Control Group Design of Children and Young People With Selective Mutism, as Well as on Adults Who Suffered Selective Mutism Earlier in Life

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 92 (actual)
• Sponsor: Susanne Walitza · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study's goal is to check and verify basic assumptions of a new selective mutism developmental model from Melfsen and Walitza through standardized and routinely used patient questionnaires. The primary emphasis is the question of a connection between selective mutism and high sensitivity, dissociation, emotional regulation, family structure, social anxiety and self-esteem.

Conditions

• Selective Mutism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychometric questionnaire study	Four groups participate in the psychometric questionnaire study. A group of mute children and their mothers (EG:A), as well as a normal, healthy control group (KG:A) with roughly the same age and sex characteristics fill out one-time questionnaires about current daily life experiences. In addition, another group of formerly mute adults (EG:B) as well as a comparable age/sex normal control group will be retrospectively questioned using the same specifically tailored questionnaire.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-31
• Completion: 2019-07-31
• First posted: 2020-01-18
• Last updated: 2020-01-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland