The Changes of Coping With Stressful Events Among Adolescents Under the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Completed

• Conditions: Coping Behavior; Mental Health Issue
• Interventions: Other: Questionnaires

• Registration Number: NCT05435469
• Lead Sponsor: Wei XIA, PhD

Brief Summary

This study aims to describe the changes in coping strategies used by adolescents for stressful life events under the background of epidemic normalization; and explore the causes of coping strategy changes of stressful life events under the background of normalization of the epidemic situation among adolescents.

Detailed Description

Under the special background of normalization of the epidemic situation, this paper describes and discusses the subjective feelings, changes in coping strategies, and causes of adolescent stressful life events, and puts forward a coping mechanism model of stressful adolescent events, which reflects the psychological changes of adolescent groups in the era of the epidemic situation and provides the basis for subsequent intervention measures.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-06-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-06-25
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-28
• Study Start: 2022-07-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-08-30
• Study Completion: 2022-12-31
• Status Verified: 2023-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-05-22
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4300

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 14-25
• Chinese nationality, who has lived in China since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, and has experienced or is experiencing the epidemic and its normalization.
• Have the normal cognitive ability, expression ability, and social participation ability.

Exclusion Criteria

• Be diagnosed with psychological or mental illness.
• Incapacitated or unable to provide informed consent.
• Patients with severe diseases.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Questionnaires assessed adolescents	Questionnaires	① Teenagers aged 14-25. ② Chinese nationality, who has lived in China since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, and has experienced or is experiencing the epidemic and its normalization. ③ Have the normal cognitive ability, expression ability, and social participation ability.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Coping strategies used after the pandemic	Baseline	The Coping strategies used by the adolescents for the stressful life events after the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Coping Inventory For Stressful Situations with the 21-items.
Mental health	Baseline	The mental health level of the adolescents will be measured by brief-symptom-inventory with 53-items.
Emotional Intelligence status	Baseline	The Emotional Intelligence status of the adolescents will be measured by Wong and Law EI Scale with 16-items.
Coping strategies used before the pandemic	Baseline	The Coping strategies used by the adolescents for the stressful life events before the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Coping Inventory For Stressful Situations with the 21-items.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Social support	Baseline	The social support that the adolescent could approach will be measured by Social Skills Rating System with the 10-items.
Stressful Life Events after pandemic	Baseline	The Stressful Life Events experienced by the adolescents after the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List with the 27-items.
Stressful Life Events before pandemic	Baseline	The Stressful Life Events experienced by the adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List with the 27-items.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

XIAW; 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China