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Creating a fun and engaging storybook to help children more effectively manage their emotions

Improving cognitive health and wellbeing in children: increasing the specificity of future positive memories and past negative memories using storybook narratives and character illustrations

Status
Unknown
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN13142918
Enrollment
56
Registered
2018-05-23
Start date
2018-05-30
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-07-21

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Depression and anxiety Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Interventions

Children will be randomly allocated to receive the storybook ("My Memory Forest") or control intervention. Both will contain the same pictures and format. Both the storybooks will consist of a story,

Sponsors

King's College London
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Children aged 6-9 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Child/caregiver has insufficient English language ability to complete the questionnaire measures and intervention 2. Child has severe learning disability or sensory impairment

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Feasibility and acceptability of the intervention are assessed by recording numbers of eligible participants, recruitment rate, retention rate, outcome measure completion rate, data completeness, data on adherence/compliance, and feedback questionnaires—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
All measures are administered pre and post intervention unless otherwise stated Child measures: 1. Depression is measured using the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) 2. Anxiety is measured using the social anxiety, generalised anxiety and separation anxiety subscales on the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) 3. Self-esteem is measured using the Rosenberg self-esteem scale 4. Memory specificity is measured using the Autobiographical Memory Task pre and post-intervention 5. Mental imagery for future events is measured using the Prospective Imagery Task 6. Participants will be asked to complete positive and negative mood ratings before and after completing each exercise Parent report: 1. Internalising symptoms (for the child) will be measured using the subscales of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) 2. Depression is measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) 3. Anxiety is measured using the Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) 4. Mental imagery for future events is measured using the Prospective Imagery Task—

Countries

United Kingdom

Contacts

Public ContactVictoria Pile
victoria.pile@kcl.ac.uk+44 (0)20 7848 0389

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 22, 2026