Emotional Stress
Conditions
Keywords
emotional stress, intervention, RCT
Brief summary
To explore the effect of Child-Adolescent Emotion and Stress Intervention Program for children with emotional and stress problems, providing early social psychological intervention for aiming the core impairments of emotional and stress problems.
Detailed description
80 children with emotional and stress problems will be randomly divided into the intervention group and the waiting group. The waiting group received regular clinical intervention, while the intervention group received 12-week training. The intervention program includes emotional regulation and stress intervention training for children by two therapists, which were carried out in one meeting rooms in Xinhua Hospital. Therapists are psychotherapists with a background in child psychotherapy training. After 12 weeks, the improvement of emotional symptoms was compared.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALChild-Adolescent Emotion and Stress Intervention Program
Intervention programs include Emotion and Stress Intervention for children with emotional and stress problems
Sponsors
Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
The evaluator was unaware of the subjects' treatment status
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
72 Months to 155 Months
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* The results were positive on the SCARED scale; Age 6 years 0 to 12 years 11 months; Total IQ is above 80 assessed by WPPSI.
Exclusion criteria
* Attention deficit disorders resulting from organic neurological diseases, extensive developmental disorders, mental retardation, childhood schizophrenia, mood disorders, epilepsy, and other organic diseases or other primary mental disorders; parent or guardian with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, mood disorder (onset), etc., and Educational level is lower than junior middle school; Participants who failed to attend more than 80% of the intervention sessions (at least 9 sessions).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) total score | 12 weeks after baseline | A strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) tests behavior by asking questions on 25 different positive and negative attributes. |
Countries
China
Contacts
Primary ContactJinsong Zhang
Outcome results
None listed