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NCT05698615

Chess Training as add-on Intervention for Adolescents With Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders

Completed NA Last updated 1 May 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Chess training in Children and Adolescents Inpatient in Psychiatric Hospital in 59 participants. Completed in 30 June 2024.

Timeline
1 October 2022
Primary endpoint
30 June 2024
30 June 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsorCentral Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationnon randomized
Designparallel
Maskingnone
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment59
Start date1 October 2022
Primary completion30 June 2024
Estimated completion30 June 2024
Sites1 location across Germany

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim

Who can join

Adults 13 to 17, any sex, with Children and Adolescents Inpatient in Psychiatric Hospital. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

In the planned study, the effect of chess training on the cognitive abilities of children and adolescents with psychiatric and psychosomatic illnesses will be investigated in a naturalistic setting. Furthermore, the effects on therapy success and quality of life will be determined.Despite the thoroughly positive results, CRT has not yet been included in the official guidelines as an intervention in standard therapy; this is due, among other things, to too few studies and too little knowledge in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. The planned study aims to fill the research gap in the field of chess training as an adjunctive intervention in children and adolescents and to provide further evidence on the relevance of CRT in child and adolescent psychiatry. The hypotheses of the proposed study are: 1. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention will improve cognitive functioning in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment. 2. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention improves quality of life in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic disorders compared to standard treatment. 3. chess training as a six-week add-on intervention positively influences the course of therapy in adolescents with psychiatric/psychosomatic illnesses compared to standard treatment.

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