Emotional Processes in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder

NCT07303270 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2026-01-09

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Summary

Emotions play a crucial part in the quality of life, interpersonal relationships and mental health in general. In adults presenting with intellectual developmental disorder (IDD), emotional abilities may be hindered, thus leading to more challenging behaviors. A better understanding of emotional processes of adults with IDD may help improve the efficiency of behavioral interventions and better improve their quality of life.

The primary goal of this study is to better characterize the abilities and weaknesses of adults with IDD concerning their emotional processes, in comparison to a healthy population. The secondary goals are :

* to determine if these difficulties are underlined by oculomotor and attention (auditory and visual) processes
* to determine if behavioral difficulties, as reported by the families of adults with IDD, are underlined by specific difficulties in facial emotion recognition, emotion identification in context and/or identification of vocal emotions.

Conditions

  • Intellectual Developmental Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

ACQUISS protocol assessing emotional processing.

Task 1: 5 minute facial emotion recognition test to identify isolated facial expressions. 6 drawn faces, without gender bias, without hair, expressing the 6 universal emotions will be presented. The emotions are: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust. Task 2 : identifying a character's emotion in a social context (20 min). The subject is presented with drawn social contexts, one character is always in orange, and the face is left blank. The subject then has to choose amongst 6 emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust) which one would correspond the most to the emotion expressed by the character in orange. Task 3 : recognizing vocal emotions (15 min). The subject is presented with dialogues of 3 sentences. The 3 sentences are expressed with a vocal emotion (same emotion for the 3 sentences). The contents of the sentences are neutral At the end of each dialogue, the subject has to show which emotion was expressed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hôpital le Vinatier

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-01-20
Primary Completion
2028-07-20
Completion
2028-10-20

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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