None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that aimed to build coping skills for adolescents who were being bullied at school. We predicted that adolecents who completed the program would reported less bullying, reduced impact of being bullied, and lower symptoms of anxiety and depression than adolescents who had been allocated to a wait-list control condition.
Interventions
The intervention condition was a cognitive behavioural group program that targeted individual factors thought to make adolescents more vulnerable to being bullied. These factors include anxiety, unhelpful coping strategies, and poor social skills and networks. The program comprised 8 weekly hour-long sessions with seperate adolescent and parent groups. Specific strategies included psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, graded exposure and social skills training.
Sponsors
Caroline Hunt
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
12 Years to 15 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Adolescents who reported bullying at school in the previous 4 weeks that was disabling and/or disturbing, and who reported clinically significant symptoms of anxiety
Exclusion criteria
Children with an inadequate command of English, a serious mental disorder requiring treatment (such as depression or psychosis) or intellectual disability according to school or parent report.
Outcome results
None listed