ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2026
Social context is a cue for tic reduction in clinical settings.
Article in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Assessment and diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome and other tic disorders relies on clinical observation and self-reported history. However, tics are highly susceptible to contextual influences, including clinical interactions. We used video-based observation to quantify the contextual impact of clinician presence on tics and evaluate the potential for these methods to improve tic detection. Youth ages 12-21 (N = 39) participated in a clinical trial with video-recorded pre- and post-treatment assessments. Established methods for precision video-based behavioral coding were used to quantify tic frequency and type across assessment contexts (clinician presence and instruction to suppress tics). Participants had significantly more tics when alone and ticcing naturally (mean tics per minute [tpm] = 25.03) and when alone with suppression instructions (mean tpm = 9.48) than in the clinician's presence (mean tpm = 3.29), all ps <.001. Further, mixed model results showed a significant decrease in tpm across treatment when alone ((β = -21.85; 95% CI: [-33.99, -9.70]), and with a clinician (β = -20.31; 95% CI: [-35.08, -5.55]), but significantly greater decrease in the alone context (β = -6.01; 95% CI: [-9.74, -2.29]). Tics occurred less frequently in clinician presence than alone (even when specifically asked to suppress tics alone), suggesting that the social context of clinician presence may facilitate tic suppression that is automatic and/or learned. Additionally, results establish objective video-based measurement as a valuable tool to detect tics and tic change not visible to the clinician.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.