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Emotion regulation as the stepping stone for youth mental health: testing the efficacy of the prevention program 'Boostcamp'

Evaluating efficacy of a school-based transdiagnostic adolescent mental health prevention program, targeting emotion regulation: a randomised controlled trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN68235634
Enrollment
280
Registered
2017-06-13
Start date
2017-02-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2018-08-20

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

Conditions

Emotion Regulation (ER) Mental and Behavioural Disorders Emotion Regulation (ER)

Interventions

When schools agree to participate, they are randomly assigned to the controle or the intervention condition. In this way, randomisation is clustered since the participating classes of one and the same

Sponsors

Ghent University
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged 10 - 14 years 2. In the first year of secondary school 3. In a participating class

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Not meeting inclusion criteria.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
1. Adolescent mental health is assessed using the Youth Self Report (YSR), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS-C), Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI), Compententie Belevingsschaal voor Adolescenten (CBSA), and KIDSCREEN-10 HRQoL for Children and Adolescents (KIDSCREEN-10) at baseline, 8 weeks and 6 months 2. Emotion regulation is assessed using the FEEL-KJ questionnaire, the emotion regulation skills questionnaire (ERSQ) and he subscale 'Emotional Awareness' of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) at baseline, 8 weeks and 6 months. The positive and negative affect (PANAS-C), depression (CDI), emotion regulation skills (ERSQ) and Global Self Worth (CBSA) are assessed immediatly after the two days training (in the last hour of the training).

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Mental health knowledge and stigma is measured using qualitative questions at baseline, 8 weeks and 6 months 2. School absenteeism and academic achievement are measured by the school through the whole school year as usual and will be delivered to the investigator after the last questionnaires

Countries

Belgium

Contacts

Public ContactBrenda Volkaert

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 6, 2026