Assessment of Emotion-regulation Skills in Game-based Situations

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Emotional Problem
• Interventions: Other: REThink therapeutic game

• Registration Number: NCT04788901
• Lead Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University

Brief Summary

The aim of the study is to investigate the validity of in-game scores as indicators for emotional regulation abilities in children and adolescence.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-08
• Study First Posted: 2021-03-09
• Study Start: 2021-05-05
• Primary Completion: 2022-01-15
• Study Completion: 2022-01-31
• Status Verified: 2022-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-09-06
• Last Update Posted: 2022-09-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 110

Inclusion Criteria

• children and adolescents between 10 and 14 years
• provided written parental consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Intellectual disability or physical limitations precluded the use of the computer program
• Had a major mental health disorder

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Online therapeutic game	REThink therapeutic game	Participants in this group will have access to the evaluation module of the REThink game.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Strengths and difficulties	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)	Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire - child version (SDQ; Goodman, 1997). It is a 25-item on a three-point Liker scale, from 0 "not true" to 2 "certainly true" where lower scores represent an improvement or lack of problems.
Compassion	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)	Compassion Scale for Children (CSC, Nas \& Sak, 2020) is a 20-items scale rated on a five points Likert scale from "Never" to "Always" where higher scores means higher levels of compassion.
Emotion-regulation	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)	The Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA; Biesecker \& Easterbrooks, 2001). It is a 13-item on a five-point Likert scale, from 0 "strong disagreement" to 5"strong agreement" where higher scores represent better emotional regulation abilities,
Emotional symptoms	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)	The Child Behavior Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL; Achenbach \& Rescorla, 2001) is a parent-report of child emotional and behavioral problems. Each item is rated on a 3-point Likert-style scale ranging from 0 (not true) to 2 (very true or often true). The DSM-derived affective and anxiety scales and the anxious/depressed and withdrawn/depressed syndrome scales, respectively, will be used to assess emotional symptoms.
Emotion recognition	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)	The Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ, Rieffe et al., 2008) is a 32-item questionnaire on a three-point Liker scale, from 0 "not true" to 2 "certainly true".

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

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