NCT03817710

Tics in Childern With Acute Deficit Hyper Activity Syndrom

Status unknown Last updated 25 January 2019

What this trial tests

trial in Behavior Disorders in 100 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 October 2019

Primary endpoint
1 October 2020

1 November 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Assiut University
Status	Status unknown
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	100
Start date	1 October 2019
Primary completion	1 October 2020
Estimated completion	1 November 2020

Conditions studied

• Behavior Disorders — all drugs for Behavior Disorders →

Sponsor

Assiut University

Who can join

Adults 2 to 18, any sex, with Behavior Disorders. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Tics have been defined as sudden, rapid, recurrent, non-rhythmic, stereotyped, involuntary movements or vocalizations. Motor tic can be either simple or complex, depending on whether one or several muscle groups are simultaneously or concurrently affected. Motor tics commonly include behaviours such as eye blinking, lip-licking, or mouth opening. It can also involve more complex movements like facial grimacing ,head movements , shoulder shrugging or combinations of these.Vocal or phonic tics are involuntary sounds that include throat clearing, coughing, barking, sniffing, unnecessary belching or more complex vocalizations such as repeating parts of words or phrases.

Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome is complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by combination of motor and vocal tics. Motor tics often precede the onset of phonic tics by many years. The phonic tics may commence from about the age of 3 years. Severe Tourette's Syndrome may manifest as forceful bouts of self-harming motor tics, including hitting or biting, as well as socially unacceptable utterances (coprolalia) and gestures \[3\].

The Tourette's Syndrome Study Group definition from 1993 requires the concurrent presence of motor and vocal tics occurring almost daily for at least one year, \[4\]. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition requires both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics have been present at some time during the illness, although not necessarily concurrently for the diagnosis of Tourette's Syndrome . It also describes Tics Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome as waxing and waning in frequency and symptoms must have lasted for more than one year since the first onset.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.