Promoting Mental Health in Adolescents Through Mobile Apps: the Case of Eating Disorders.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 93
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in the degree of ascription to dysfunctional beliefs associated with ED.
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of GGTCA-AD to decrease the maladaptive beliefs associated with eating disorders (ED) in non-clinical adolescent population. Specifically, a randomized controlled trial with parallel design and two groups (experimental and control) will be carried out in adolescents aged 13-15 years to assess the changes pre and post use of the app. It is expected that after the use of the GGTCA-AD app for 14 days, at the primary level, a: decrease in the degree of ascription to dysfunctional beliefs associated with ED; and at the secondary level: increase in body satisfaction and self-esteem; decrease in eating symptomatology; and no changes in emotional symptomatology. These results are also expected to be maintained in subsequent follow-up at 1 month.
详细描述
There is a digital platform called GGtude, which is composed of different modules, each of them aimed at working with different mental health problems. The goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool as a CBT complement to work on the self-dialogue that relates to the core beliefs associated with the psychological problem in particular. To achieve this target, a cognitive training exercise is performed: different sentences appear in the form of beliefs, and the person must identify and accept those beliefs that are functional, adaptive and positive, dragging them to the lower part of the screen; and reject those that are dysfunctional, maladaptive and negative dragging them to the upper part of the screen.
The GGTCA app is a module of GGtude that was developed to work on dysfunctional beliefs associated with eating disorders. Previous research showed that the app produced a statistically significant decrease of mean scores in maladaptive beliefs associated with ED and a statistically significant increase in self-esteem in adult population.
Furthermore, adolescence is a developmental stage vulnerable to the development of these disorders, so it's relevant to adapt the GGTCA application to the adolescent population (GGTCA-AD) and to evaluate its effectiveness.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 15 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •(1) ages between 13 and 16; (2) that the parents or guardians of the adolescents and the participants have signed the informed consent form; (3) have a dispositive with Internet access.
排除标准
- •(1) have inadequately answered control questions, for example "please check the option every day in this sentence".
结局指标
主要结局
Change in the degree of ascription to dysfunctional beliefs associated with ED.
时间窗: 15 days (after using the app) and one month later at follow-up.
Score change in eating disorders maladaptive beliefs measured by the Eating Disorder Beliefs Questionnaire (EDBQ). It is composed of 32 items that examines core beliefs about weight, physical appearance and eating that are associated with eating disorders. Items are rated on an analog scale from 0 to 100, being 0 "I do not usually believe this at all" and 100 "I am usually completely convinced that this is true". Higher scores indicate the person has more maladaptive beliefs.
次要结局
- Change in self-esteem.(15 days (after using the app) and one month later at follow-up.)
- Changes in perfectionism ans interpersonal distrust symptoms(15 days (after using the app) and one month later at follow-up.)
- Change in body satisfaction.(15 days (after using the app) and one month later at follow-up.)
- Changes in emotional symptoms(15 days (after using the app) and one month later at follow-up.)
- Change in eating symptomatology.(15 days (after using the app) and one month later at follow-up.)
研究者
Gemma García-Soriano
Associate Professor
University of Valencia