Emotion Regulation
Conditions
Keywords
online therapeutic game, emotional problems, emotional regulation, children and adolescents
Brief summary
This activity will have the objectives of preliminary testing user satisfaction, the feasibility of the platform and its preliminary efficacy
Detailed description
Preliminary efficacy will be tested in an emotion-regulation framework. Children included in this study will be allocated to play Level 4 of the REThink game on cognitive change or to no intervention Control condition. Children and adolescents in the intervention group will be distributed afterwards in two groups: with or without ecological momentary intervention (EMI) using the PsyPills app for following-up with the cognitive change ER personalized strategy reminder during a real exam situation. Outcomes considered will be stress reactivity (both subjective and physiological) using EMA before, during and after the test (Colombo et al., 2020), and cognitive change, namely irrational and rational beliefs, and reflective functioning improvements.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALRethink game
REThink is a online therapeutic game developed by David and collaborators (2018), proved to be an efficient intervention to reduce emotional symptoms of children and adolescents.
BEHAVIORALPsyPills
PsyPills is a mobile app designed to provide personalized psychological pills
Sponsors
The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding
Babes-Bolyai University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
10 Years to 16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* children and adolescents between 10 and 16 years old * provided written parental consent * able to access mobile/internet applications on their device
Exclusion criteria
* Intellectual disability or physical limitations precluded the use of the computer program * Had a major mental health disorder
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Changes in levels of rational and irrational beliefs | Post-intervention (one week after the intervention) | The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality (CASI, Bernard & Cronan, 1999) will be used in order to test irrational/rational beliefs as a mechanism of change. Children and adolescents were asked to express their agreement/disagreement with the 28 statements on a 5-point Likert-type scale, from 1 (strong disagreement) to 5 (strong agreement) |
| Emotion regulation abilities | Baseline | The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire - Short (Garnefski & Kraaij, 2006) is an 18-item self-report scale that measures a total of nine different cognitive coping strategies, each addressed by two items. |
| Changes in emotion regulation abilities | Post-intervention (one week after the intervention) | The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire - Short (Garnefski & Kraaij, 2006) is an 18-item self-report scale that measures a total of nine different cognitive coping strategies, each addressed by two items. |
| Levels of rational and irrational beliefs | Baseline | The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality (CASI, Bernard & Cronan, 1999) will be used in order to test irrational/rational beliefs as a mechanism of change. Children and adolescents were asked to express their agreement/disagreement with the 28 statements on a 5-point Likert-type scale, from 1 (strong disagreement) to 5 (strong agreement) |
Countries
Romania
Outcome results
None listed