Comparing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Strategies to Cognitive Therapy Strategies in Reduction of Test Anxiety
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- grades on final exams
研究概览
简要总结
This study proposes to compare the effectiveness of an acceptance-based intervention and a cognitive control-based intervention for coping with test anxiety in nursing students during the HESI (Health Education Systems, Inc.) examination.
Subjects will be randomized to receive either the CT or the ACT condition. In both conditions, subjects will receive an education on test anxiety to inform them about what test anxiety is and why it occurs. Then, the different conditions will receive the respective treatment of either CT or ACT. The study is considered minimum risk because the nursing students will only be exposed to an amount of anxiety that is typical of their testing experience. Both conditions will meet three times, with each session lasting approximately one and a half hours. The purpose of the treatment is to provide subjects with tools to help them cope with their test anxiety.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Nursing student subjects may only participate if they are currently enrolled as an undergraduate student at Drexel University.
- •They must be nursing majors enrolled in Nursing 492 and intending to take the cumulative HESI examination.
- •Psychology students must be enrolled in the courses where recruitment will occur.
- •Pre-professional students must be currently enrolled at Drexel University, and planning to take a Standardized test within 6 months.
- •All subjects must be at least 18 years of age or older.
排除标准
- •Persons may not participate if they are unable to see/read words off of a computer screen.
研究组 & 干预措施
ACT
Acceptance-and-Commitment Therapy Intervention: Subjects receiving the ACT strategies will be taught to defuse from their anxiety (or recognize that their thoughts are just thoughts). They will be taught to accept their anxiety and to learn to live with anxiety. Subjects will be told that while they cannot control the occurrence of their thoughts, they can control whether or not they choose to view them as separate from the self versus part of the self.
干预措施: ACT (Behavioral)
CT
Cognitive Therapy Intervention: Subjects receiving the CT strategies will be taught to restructure their negative thoughts to make them more positive, based on the concept that thoughts are linked to their problems with test anxiety because beliefs can cause strong powerful emotions and behaviors. Subjects will be taught not to blame their environments for emotional and behavioral responses, and they will be shown how to change their beliefs in order to affect their emotions and their behaviors.
干预措施: CT (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
grades on final exams
时间窗: 2-3 months
次要结局
未报告次要终点