An Integrative Platform for Promoting Children's Emotional Health
- Conditions
- Emotional Problem
- Interventions
- Behavioral: REThink therapeutic gameBehavioral: Online parenting program
- Registration Number
- NCT04949620
- Lead Sponsor
- Babes-Bolyai University
- Brief Summary
The general objective of the study is to test an online platform for the promotion of emotional health in children
- Detailed Description
The project aims at implementing an integrated online therapeutic platform that will be accessed by youth, parents and clinicians. The main original feature is the integration of state of the art online/mobile and gaming technologies into a unique platform that allows easy access to personalized, accessible and validated prevention.
The platform aims to allow access to attractive, easily accessible and evidence-based prevention for youths. The system will be validated in the second step as an integrative, multi-componential and adaptive platform for the prevention of emotional disorders in youth. The platform includes tools that were separately tested in laboratory conditions and found to be effective: the REThink therapeutic video game and the online REThink Parenting and Rational Parent Coach mobile programs.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 256
- children aged 8 to 12 years
- scores above average at any subscale of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire
- parental consent provided
- for the parental intervention: no changes in children's main outcomes following the REThink intervention
- intellectual disability or physical limitations precluding the use of the online platform
- presence of a mental health disorder in the children or their enrolled parent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- FACTORIAL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description REThink game, then online parent intervention for non-responders Online parenting program Participants who are allocated to the REThink game and do not respond to the four-week intervention will be allocated to the online REThink game, then responder monitoring REThink therapeutic game Participants in this group will have access to the REThink game for four weeks; based on their response to the intervention, they will be monitored for an additional period of four weeks. REThink game, then online parent intervention for non-responders REThink therapeutic game Participants who are allocated to the REThink game and do not respond to the four-week intervention will be allocated to the online
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Children's emotional symptoms baseline The Child Behavior Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL; Achenbach \& Rescorla, 2001) is a parent-report of child emotional and behavioral problems. Each item is rated on a 3-point Likert-style scale ranging from 0 (not true) to 2 (very true or often true). The DSM-derived affective and anxiety scales and the anxious/depressed and withdrawn/depressed syndrome scales, respectively, will be used to assess emotional symptoms.
Changes in children's emotional symptoms - immediately immediately post first-stage intervention (4 weeks following baseline) The Child Behavior Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL; Achenbach \& Rescorla, 2001) is a parent-report of child emotional and behavioral problems. Each item is rated on a 3-point Likert-style scale ranging from 0 (not true) to 2 (very true or often true). The DSM-derived affective and anxiety scales and the anxious/depressed and withdrawn/depressed syndrome scales, respectively, will be used to assess emotional symptoms.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Child irrationality baseline The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality "Bernard ME, Cronan F (1999) The child and adolescent scale of irrationality: validation data and mental health correlates. J Cogn Psychother 13:121-132"
Changes in child irrationality immediately post first-stage intervention (4 weeks following baseline) The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality "Bernard ME, Cronan F (1999) The child and adolescent scale of irrationality: validation data and mental health correlates. J Cogn Psychother 13:121-132"
Child behavioral difficulties baseline SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire "Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998) The strengths and difficulties questionnaire: "a pilot study on the validity of the self-report version. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 7:125-130"
Child trauma baseline CTQ - Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Bernstein, D. P., Stein, J. A., Newcomb, M. D., Walker, E., Pogge, D., Ahluvalia, T., ... \& Zule, W. (2003). Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Child abuse \& neglect, 27(2), 169-190.
Changes in child behavioral difficulties immediately post first-stage intervention (4 weeks following baseline) SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire "Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998) The strengths and difficulties questionnaire: "a pilot study on the validity of the self-report version. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 7:125-130"
Changes in children emotional abilities immediately post first-stage intervention (4 weeks following baseline) The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire - Short (Garnefski \& Kraaij, 2006) is an 18-item self-report scale that measures a total of nine different cognitive coping strategies, each addressed by two items.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Oana David
🇷🇴Cluj-Napoca, Romania