An Integrative Intervention for Preventing Children's Emotional Disorders

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Emotional Problem
• Interventions: Behavioral: Rethink game

• Registration Number: NCT05424900
• Lead Sponsor: Oana David

Brief Summary

The general objective of the study is to test an online platform for the prevention of emotional disorders in children aged 8-12 without any clinical symptoms.

Detailed Description

The general objective of the study is to test an online platform for the prevention of emotional disorders in children aged 8-12 without any clinical symptoms. The game will be used by children and adolescents for a period of four weeks. Pre-test and post-test measurements will be taken.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-05-03
• Study First Submitted: 2022-06-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-06-17
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-21
• Primary Completion: 2022-09-15
• Study Completion: 2022-09-30
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-10-03
• Last Update Posted: 2023-10-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 294

Inclusion Criteria

• children aged 8 to 12 years
• parental consent provided
• al least one answer different than never true on the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire - Short Form (CTQ-SF; Bernstein & Fink, 1998; Bernstein et al., 2003), measuring dichotomically the presence of Emotional Neglect, Physical Neglect, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse

Exclusion Criteria

• 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: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
REThink game	Rethink game	REThink is a online therapeutic game developed by David and collaborators (2018), proved to be an efficient intervention for the reduction of emotional symptoms in children and adolescents.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Child emotion regulation	baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)	The Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA; Biesecker \& Easterbrooks, 2001). The 13 items are measured on a five-point Likert scale, from 0 "strong disagreement" to 5"strong agreement" where higher scores represent better emotional regulation abilitie
Changes in children emotional regulation	post-test, one week after the intervention	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.
child emotional simptoms	baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)	SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire "Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998)
Changes in child emotional simptoms	post-test, one week after the intervention	SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998)
Changes in child emotion regulation	post-test, one week after the intervention	The Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA; Biesecker \& Easterbrooks, 2001). The 13 items are measured on a five-point Likert scale, from 0 "strong disagreement" to 5"strong agreement" where higher scores represent better emotional regulation abilities.
Children emotional regulation	baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
child behavioral difficulties	baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)	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 child mental health	post-test, one week after the intervention	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"
Children's irrational beliefs	baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)	The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality (CASI, Bernard \& Cronan, 1999)
changes in Children's irrational beliefs	post-test, one week after the intervention	The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality (CASI, Bernard \& Cronan, 1999)
Mental health	baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)	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"

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Babes-Bolyai University; 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania