Fostering Resilience and Well-being in Young Adults With a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences - the FACE Self-help App
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 167
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Resilience
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The FACE self-help app is an online intervention for young adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). It was developed based on well-established cognitive-behavioural therapy principles. The self-help app contains two components, one targeting emotion regulation (ER), the other social information processing (SIP).
Detailed Description
The FACE self-help app is an online intervention for young adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). It was developed based on well-established cognitive-behavioural therapy principles. The self-help app contains two components, one targeting emotion regulation (ER), the other social information processing (SIP).
The goal of the present study is to evaluate the efficacy of the FACE self-help app, which aims to foster resilience and improve well-being by enhancing emotion regulation, social skills and minimizing biases in social information processing.
The primary objective is to examine the efficacy of the FACE self-help app for improving resilience and well-being in young adults with a history of ACEs compared to a waiting list control group and to examine the stability of a possible effect.
Secondary objectives are to test
- the differential efficacy of the self- and emotion regulation and the social skills and social information processing component
- the effects of the FACE self-help app on real life data in affective states, social interactions, the use of coping strategies and state resilience.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 25 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Self-reported ACEs
- •An informed consent
- •The possession of a smartphone
- •Mastery of the German language.
- •Age between 18 and 25
Exclusion Criteria
- •Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g., due to comprehension problems, visual impairment, lack of sufficient motor skills or severe psychological or somatic disorders which require immediate treatment which impedes the continuous work on the self-help programme. These points will be discussed with the participant in the screening telephone call.
- •Acute suicidality.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Resilience
Time Frame: at week 13, t2 (post-measurement)
Resilience will be assessed with the German version (Sarubin et al., 2015) of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) (Connor \& Davidson, 2003). The scale contains 10 items that are rated on a 5-point scale from 0 - Not true at all to 4 - True nearly all the time. A higher score indicates more resilience.
Secondary Outcomes
- Well-being(at week 13, t2 (post-measurement))
- Self-Esteem(at week 13, t2 (post-measurement))
- Stability of decrease in fear of negative evaluation(at week 24, t4 (follow-up))
- Stability of decrease in social avoidance(at week 24, t4 (follow-up))
- Emotion Regulation(at week 13, t2 (post-measurement))
- Fear of Negative Evaluation(at week 13, t2 (post-measurement))
- Social Avoidance(at week 13, t2 (post-measurement))
- Problem-Solving(at week 13, t2 (post-measurement))
- Stability of improvement in emotion regulation(at week 24, t4 (follow-up))
- Stability of improvement in problem-solving(at week 24, t4 (follow-up))
- Stability of improvement in self-esteem(at week 24, t4 (follow-up))
- Stability of improvement in resilience(at week 24, t4 (follow-up))
- Stability of improvement in well-being(at week 24, t4 (follow-up))
Investigators
Jeannette Brodbeck
Prof. Dr.
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland