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Impaired Decision Making in Pedophilic Offenders

NCT ID: NCT01541150

Last Updated: 2014-12-31

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

128 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-08-31

Study Completion Date

2017-01-31

Brief Summary

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Pedophilic behaviors represent a public health problem with serious consequences. The investigators hypothesize a disruption in the decision-making strategies among sex offenders pedophiles. Highlight this type of abnormality would offer a specific treatment of a possible neuropsychological deficit (with cognitive remediation for instance) and perhaps avoid recurrences of this type of behavior.

Detailed Description

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Cross-sectional study, comparing a group of 64 pedophilic offenders inmates condamned with a group of 64 volunteers non-pedophiles matched by age and level of study.

Conditions

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Pedophilia

Keywords

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Pedophilia Impaired Decision making Insight Cognitive Distorsions Impulsiveness

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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patient suffering pedophilia

This group is the active comparator because patients suffering pedophilia with neuropsychological questionnaires

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

neuropsychological questionnaires

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Due to this study population (inmates), the investigators have decided to classify the protocol as and interventionnal study.

control group

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Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

neuropsychological questionnaires

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Due to this study population (inmates), the investigators have decided to classify the protocol as and interventionnal study.

Interventions

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neuropsychological questionnaires

Due to this study population (inmates), the investigators have decided to classify the protocol as and interventionnal study.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* For the controls, lack of diagnosis of disorders of sexual behavior (paraphilias) current or past (DSM IV)
* For the pedophilic offenders:

* Placement and conviction for rape or sexual assault of a minor under 15 years
* Recognition of the facts
* Existence of a current or past diagnosis of pedophilia (according to the DSM IV).

Exclusion Criteria

* Presence of a current major depressive episode (DSM IV - MINI)
* History of cerebral neurological disorder or a cranial trauma with loss of consciousness current
* IGT test already done
* Schizophrenia or Other current psychotic disorders(according to the criteria DSM IV of MINI test).
* taking psychoactive drug
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

MALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Montpellier

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Lacambre Mathieu, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

CHU de Montpellier

Locations

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CHU de Montpellier

Montpellier, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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France

Central Contacts

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Lacambre Mathieu, MD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 04 67 33 85 77

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Lacambre Mathieu, MD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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2011-A00402-39

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

8673

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id