Clinical Efficacy and Change of Life Quality Through Using the Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention Treatment for Tics

February 18, 2021 updated by: Children's Hospital of Fudan University

Study on the Clinical Efficacy and Change of Life Quality Through Using the Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention Treatment for Tics (CBIT)

Study on the clinical efficacy and change of life quality through using the Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention Treatment for Tics (CBIT)

Study Overview

Detailed Description

This study tried to explore the clinical effect of comprehensive behavioral intervention therapy (CBIT) on tic symptoms and the effect of improving the quality of life in children with tic disorders;explore the optimal treatment plan for tic disorder by comparing the clinical efficacy of CBIT therapy, drug therapy, and psychosocial education; explore the feasibility of using quality of life as an evaluation index for functional recovery after tic disorder treatment;

Study Type

Interventional

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

9 years to 16 years (CHILD)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Meets the diagnostic criteria for chronic tic disorder or Tourette syndrome (TS) according to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), and has been diagnosed by two pediatric psychiatrists who are associate chief physicians or more;
  • The age ranged from 9 to 16 years old;
  • The total score of tic symptoms in the Yale global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) is 13-30;
  • Childrens Webster's Intelligence Scale ≥ 85
  • Co-morbid ADHD, but the drug treatment dose for ADHD is stable (the drug has been stabilized for more than 6 weeks), or no drug has been taken at the beginning and during the stud

Exclusion Criteria:

  • There are brain organic diseases, metabolic diseases, psychiatric disorders, drug-induced involuntary movement and other extrapyramidal lesions;
  • Habit reversal training and other behavioral treatments for more than 4 weeks;
  • unwilling participants or disobedient subgroups in the study

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
  • Allocation: RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: PARALLEL
  • Masking: DOUBLE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: CBIT Group
Patients in this group would only receive the CBIT treatment.

Comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics is an extension of habit reversal training. It includes an expanded set of strategies, such as psycho-education about tic disorders, tic awareness training, competing response training, relaxation training, and functional analysis.

According to the CBIT treatment manual (translated by sun Jinhua and Xu Wen, the author were Douglas W. woods et al., Oxford University Press, New York). The treatments consisted of 8 sessions for 10 weeks The first two phases were 1.5 hours, the last six stages were 1 hour.The treatment process was regularly supervised by a treatment supervisor.

EXPERIMENTAL: Drug therapy Group
Patients in this group would only receive the drug therapy.
Considering the patients with chronic tic disorder (chronic motor or vocal tic disorder or Tourette's disorder), aripiprazole was selected as a single drug with constant dose during the treatment. In case of extrapyramidal side effects, benhexol was given to reduce the extrapyramidal side effects, and the dosage and duration of medication were recorded

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Reduction rate of Tic symptom severity before and after intervention
Time Frame: Baseline, the tenth week of treatment

Tic symptom severity is estimated by Yale Global Tic Severity Scale Total Tic score. The YGTSS is a clinician-rated scale used to assess tic severity over the prior week. It includes a checklist of motor and vocal tics followed by an assessment of the number, frequency, intensity, complexity, and inference of motor tics and phonic tics-scored separately. Each of these dimensions is scored on a 0 to 5 scale. The YGTSS provides three tic severity scores: Total Motor (0 to 25); Total Phonic (0 to 25) and the combined Total Tic Severity Score (0 to 50), as well as a separate Impairment dimension scored from0 to 50. The Total Tic Score (YGTSS-TTS) was used in these analyses.Lower scores indicate improvement and higher scores indicate worsening.

Reduction rate = (YGTSS total score before intervention - YGTSS total score after intervention) / YGTSS total score before treatment × 100%

Baseline, the tenth week of treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
overall treatment response
Time Frame: The fifth week and the tenth week of treatment and three month after treatment end
The overall treatment response is measured by CG-I. This is a repeated measurement variable.The CGI-I was used to measure overall treatment response. The scores range from 1 (very much improved) to 4 (no change) to 7 (very much worse). We defined positive response as a score of 1 or 2 (much improved or very much improved).
The fifth week and the tenth week of treatment and three month after treatment end
life quality
Time Frame: The fifth week and the tenth week of treatment and three month after treatment end

Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) and Child Tourette's Syndrome Impairment Scale(CTIM) were used to assessed health-related QoL.This is a repeated measurement variable.

PedsQL was a widely used 15-item measure assessed health-related QoL. Parents were asked to rate how often a particular item had been a problem during the past month using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from ''never a problem'' to ''almost always a problem." Total scores were linearly transformed to a scale of 0 to 100. Higher scores indicated better QoL. Four subscales measured physical, emotional, social, and school functioning.

The CTIM-P is a 37-item parent-rated instrument that includes school, home, and social activities that may be impaired by their child's tics or a co-morbid problem (e.g., obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depressed mood, anxiety, oppositional/disruptive behavior, hyperactivity, inattentiveness).

The fifth week and the tenth week of treatment and three month after treatment end

Collaborators and Investigators

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (ANTICIPATED)

March 1, 2021

Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)

June 1, 2022

Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)

September 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 21, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 18, 2021

First Posted (ACTUAL)

February 21, 2021

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

February 21, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 18, 2021

Last Verified

February 1, 2021

More Information

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