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Effectiveness of Symptom Management Application on Parental Care Ability of Children With Tourette Syndrome

ConditionsTourette SyndromeTic DisorderNeurodevelopmental Disorder
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age20-60
SponsorNational Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

About this trial

This study developed a Tourette Syndrome (TS) symptom management application (APP) to improve the care needs, sleep quality, anxiety, quality of life, and parenting relationship of parents of children with Tourette Syndrome.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Parents of children between 6-12 years old who are diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome by pediatricians.

Parents who are the primary caregivers

Parents with normal cognitive functioning who can communicate in Mandarin.

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Symptom Management APP group

    Behavioral

    Based on symptom management theory and the relevant literature, the researcher designed a symptom management APP. The APP includes a symptom recording system, symptom management skills, and Tourette Syndrome knowledge information to facilitate parents' and children's joint learning.

  • health education instructions group

    Other intervention

    To receive outpatient verbal and paper health education guidance from healthcare providers.

Treatment groups

180 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: symptom management APP groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Health education instructions groupActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Care needs scale for parents of children with Tourette Syndrome (CNS-PCTS)

The CNS-PCTS contained 13 items, with a score range of 13 to 52. A higher CNS-PCTS score indicated that the parents required greater care needs.

Time frame
Change from baseline degree of CNS-PCTS after intervention, 1 month and 3 months.
2

Parent-Child Relationship Quality Inventory

The parent-child relationship quality inventory contained 30 items, with a score range of 20 to 100. A higher parent-child relationship quality inventory indicated that the parents perceived greater parent-child relationship quality.

Time frame
Change from baseline degree of parent-child relationship quality inventory after intervention, 1 month and 3 months.

Secondary outcomes

1

Short version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF)

The WHOQOL-BREF contained 28 items, with a score range of 28 to 140. A higher WHOQOL-BREF score indicated that the parents perceived a better quality of life.

Time frame
Change from baseline degree of WHOQOL-BREF after intervention, 1 month and 3 months.
2

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Chinese version)

The scoring range is 0-21; a total score above 5 represents poor sleep quality, a score below or equal to 5 means good sleep quality.

Time frame
Change from baseline degree of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Chinese version) after intervention, 1 month and 3 months.
3

Beck Anxiety Inventory (Chinese version)

There are 21 items in the Beck Anxiety Inventory (Chinese version), which measures the severity of anxiety by subjects' self-report.

Time frame
Change from baseline degree of Beck Anxiety Inventory (Chinese version) after intervention, 1 month and 3 months.
4

Yale Global Tic Severity Scale(YGTSS)

The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale will used in this research to evaluate adolescents' tic severity. The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale has a total score ranging from 0 to 100, with the high score indicating a higher tics severity.

Time frame
Change from baseline degree of YGTSS after intervention, 1 month and 3 months.

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Lead sponsor

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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