Test Anxiety: Pervasiveness, Link With Academic Achievement and Impact of Cognitive-behavioral Intervention in Its Reduction
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 80
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Westside Test Anxiety Scale (WTAS)
研究概览
简要总结
This study will evaluate the role of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in test anxiety. The study participants will be psychology undergraduates with social work and psychology majors. The students will be selected among those who score three or more in Westside Test Anxiety Scale will participate in the study. Westside Test Anxiety will be used two weeks after completion of the group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy protocol (Flaxman, Bond & Keogh. 2004). The result will be analyzed using the t-test and Cohen's d.
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
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Those Studying Social work and Psychology as Major subjects, Those who have scored 3 and above in Westside Test Anxiety scale
排除标准
- •Those scoring below 3 in Westside Test Anxiety Scale
研究组 & 干预措施
Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Group CBT)
Intervention Group will receive ten-session group CBT for test anxiety. Two sessions will be carried out each week.
干预措施: Group CBT for test anxiety (Behavioral)
Control Group
The Control group will be waiting for the control group who will receive intervention if they demand after final assessment for outcome measure.
结局指标
主要结局
Westside Test Anxiety Scale (WTAS)
时间窗: Change from Baseline Test Anxiety Scores after completion of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ( after one and half month)
The WTAS consists of 10 items, each using a Likert response scale where 1= "Never true" and 5= "always true. Total score is divided by 10 to obtain final scores. The total score ranges from one to five. Score of 1-2.9 is considered normal test anxiety and score of 3-5 is labelled as high test anxiety.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Khem Raj Bhatta
Principal Investigator
University Grants Commission