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Emotional Processes in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder

ConditionIntellectual Developmental Disorder
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-35
SponsorHôpital le Vinatier

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Diagnosis of IDD according to DSM-V criteria

aged between 18 and 3 years

French speaking

Membership or entitlement to a social security plan

Disqualifiers

visual or auditory impairments, evaluated at V1

non stabilized epilepsy

undergoing treatments that can impact brain or psychological functioning

major motor disorders

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • ACQUISS protocol assessing emotional processing.

    Other intervention

    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.

Treatment groups

60 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: IDD groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Control groupOther 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

proportion of correct answers on the ACQUISS battery

proportion of correct answers in each of the 3 tasks

Time frame
Baseline

Secondary outcomes

1

Proportion of correct answers on the Entangled lines test

Time frame
Baseline
2

Proportion of correct answers on the NSUCO test

Northeastern State University College of Optometry test.

Time frame
Baseline
3

Proportion of correct answers on an auditory attentional task (NEPSY-II)

Time frame
Baseline
4

Proportion of correct signs barred on the TeddyBear task

Time frame
Baseline

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Hôpital le Vinatier

Lead sponsor

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