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

NCT ID: NCT05698615

Last Updated: 2025-05-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 59 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-06-30

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Children and Adolescents Inpatient in Psychiatric Hospital

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Chess training group

group receiving additional chess training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Chess training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The chess training, which takes place as a measure for CRT with the children and adolescents, is carried out by the concept of the Munich Chess Academy. The concept applied here, "Chess according to the King's Plan", represents a holistic concept. Especially prepared for children and adolescents, theoretical aspects are illustrated in games and exercises.

control group

group receiving standard therapy only

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Chess training

The chess training, which takes place as a measure for CRT with the children and adolescents, is carried out by the concept of the Munich Chess Academy. The concept applied here, "Chess according to the King's Plan", represents a holistic concept. Especially prepared for children and adolescents, theoretical aspects are illustrated in games and exercises.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Inpatient treatment at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence, ZI Mannheim
• Age between 13 and 17 years
• Sufficient ability to answer questions verbally and in written form
• Ability to give consent by patients and their parents after detailed verbal and written explanation
• Consent of patients and parents must be given in paper form

Exclusion Criteria

• Date of inpatient admission more than 3 weeks ago
• Withdrawal of informed consent
• Severe psychiatric, neurological and internal medical comorbidities

• Minimum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 17 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Munich Chess academy

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Central Institute of Mental Health

Mannheim, , Germany

Countries

Germany

Other Identifiers

2021-593

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id