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SchizophreniaSAILLANCE1NCT02874482

Cognitive and Emotional Factors in Visual Exploration Among Patients With Schizophrenia

An observational study of Schizophrenia, run by University Hospital, Lille at 1 site in France.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Background: Patients with schizophrenia are abnormally disturbed by information onsets, which may result in a disadvantage in filtering relevant information. It seems that they accord the same importance to all objects in a scene without taking into account the relevance of objects (cognitive salience) or their… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Schizophrenia
How many people
42 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
Jul 2014to 17 Nov 2019
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: 30 patients with schizophrenia and 30 healthy controls

Who may be able to join

  • Normal or corrected vision
  • Affiliate to a social security system
  • For group of patients with schizophrenia : diagnosis of schizophrenia based on the standard DSM-IV criteria and patients will be clinically stable at the testing time

Who cannot join

  • History of neurological illness
  • Pregnant and nursing women
  • Drugs use in the last 24 hours
  • Acute ocular disorder
  • Under tutorship, curatorship or deprived of liberty
  • For controls group : be free DSM-IV axis-I diagnoses according the MINI test.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

France1 site
  • University Hospital, Lille

    Lille, 59037

Other trials in France

About this study

Official title: Study of Cognitive and Emotional Factors Influencing the Visual Exploration Among Patients With Schizophrenia

Background:

Patients with schizophrenia are abnormally disturbed by information onsets, which may result in a disadvantage in filtering relevant information. It seems that they accord the same importance to all objects in a scene without taking into account the relevance of objects (cognitive salience) or their emotional charge (salience emotional).

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The paradigm of change blindness offers the interesting possibility of studying sensitivity to the sudden irruption of visual information with ecological stimuli in schizophrenia. An increased attentional capture by the irruption of visual information would suggest better performance in patients than in healthy controls. Moreover, patients are disturbed to processing of emotional information, in this way we would like to measure the impact of emotional salience on the visual exploration.

Main aim:

The main objective is to evaluate, if patients with schizophrenia quickly detect changes occurring on irrelevant objects in the understanding of the scene.

Secondary objectives:

To evaluate in patients with schizophrenia the impact of emotional salience using the same paradigm.

To separate an explicit response (motors responses) with an implicit response (eye tracking measures).

Methodology:

30 patients with schizophrenia and 30 healthy controls were asked to detect changes in 96 scenes with 0 or 1 change (neutral or emotional changes). We will measure the participants' speed and accuracy in explicitly reporting the changes via motor responses and their capacity to implicitly detect changes via eye movements.

Read the detailed description

This study will include one visit:

  • Written consent will be obtained from all participants
  • Inclusion and exclusion criteria will be checked
  • An ophthalmologic test, a pregnancy test, a alcohol test and a salivary test will be realized
  • Various symptoms will be assessed with the PANSS (Positive And Negative Syndrome Scale for schizophrenia) and the UPDRS (Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale for patients, the MOCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment), The HAD (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and the MINI (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview) for all participants.
  • The task will be divided in two parts:

A visuo-spatial task allowing to record saccadic eye movements (approximately 10 min).

The change blindness session lasted approximately 20 min.

Conditions
Schizophrenia
Keywords
Schizophrenia, Change blindness, Eye tracking, Implicit response
Medical subject headings
Schizophrenia

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Study groups in NCT02874482
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Patients with schizophrenia30 patients with schizophrenia (diagnosis based on the standard DSM criteria)
Controls30 healthy controls without any psychiatric or neurological diagnosis

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. response time

    The explicit response of the participants will be measure behaviourally by response time before the detection of neutral stimuli.

    Measured: 42 months

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. sensitivity index

    Performances will be measure by a sensitivity index (D prime) which considers the number of correct detections compared with the missed detections and false alarms; thus it evaluates the capacity to discriminate the signal against a background noise.

    Measured: 42 months

  2. implicit response

    The implicit response will be measure by the localization and duration of fixations

    Measured: 42 months

  3. emotional response

    The emotional response will be measure by the localization, duration of fixations and performances for the detection of emotional stimuli

    Measured: 42 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted22 Aug 2016 (estimated)
  2. Study startJul 2014
  3. Primary completion17 Nov 2019
  4. Study completion17 Nov 2019

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Case-control
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
42 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02874482
Sponsor's protocol ID
2013_19.1
Other IDs
2013-A01497-38
Acronym
SAILLANCE1
Status last verified
Aug 2020
First submitted
17 Aug 2016
Last updated
26 Aug 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Schizophrenia, run by University Hospital, Lille at 1 site in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 6 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Aug 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

response time (time frame: 42 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Aug 2020.

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