The effectiveness of the commercial video game Journey in preventing depression

A randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness and action mechanisms of the video game Journey in preventing depression

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON26252

Enrollment

290

Registered

2014-12-08

Start date

2014-12-08

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Depression, Prevention, Adolescents Depressie, Preventie, Adolescenten

Interventions

Adolescents with elevated depressive symptoms are randomly assigned to one of two video game conditions or a no intervention control condition. Participants in the video game conditions are provided w

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Adolescents aged approximately 15-18 years; 2. Informed consent from adolescents and parents; 3. Elevated depressive symptoms. Participants are eligible if they score 13 or higher on the CDI score and 2 or higher on the PHQ-2 at screening.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Children with severe depressive score and suicidal ideation (CDI score 30 or higher and/or score 3 on item 9 of the CDI); 2. Previous experience with the video games Flower and/or Journey.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Depressive symptoms: Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Core depressive symptoms (PHQ-2); 2. Rejection sensitivity (Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire); 3. Narrative Identity (Adapted version of Life Story Interview); 4. Emotion regulation (Children's Response Styles Questionnaire); 5. Self esteem (Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale); 6. Dependency (Dependency subscale of the Personality Style Inventory); 7. Hope and Optimism (General Positive Expectancies); 8. Coping Competence (Coping Competence Questionnaire). Also the following process measures (mediators and moderators) are measured: 1. Flow (Flow as designed by Novak, 2000); 2. Intrinsic motivation (Intrinsic Motivation Inventory); 3. Psychological need satisfaction (Player Experience of Need Satisfaction); 4. Humanization (adapted from Bastian and Haslam (2010); 5. Game experience & evaluation (self-developed questionnaire items).	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Core depressive symptoms (PHQ-2); 2. Rejection sensitivity (Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire); 3. Narrative Identity (Adapted version of Life Story Interview); 4. Emotion regulation (Children's Response Styles Questionnaire); 5. Self esteem (Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale); 6. Dependency (Dependency subscale of the Personality Style Inventory); 7. Hope and Optimism (General Positive Expectancies); 8. Coping Competence (Coping Competence Questionnaire). Also the following process measures (mediators and moderators) are measured: 1. Flow (Flow as designed by Novak, 2000); 2. Intrinsic motivation (Intrinsic Motivation Inventory); 3. Psychological need satisfaction (Player Experience of Need Satisfaction); 4. Humanization (adapted from Bastian and Haslam (2010); 5. Game experience & evaluation (self-developed questionnaire items).

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Contacts

Public ContactMarlou Poppelaars

Behavioural Science Institute Montessorilaan 3

m.poppelaars@pwo.ru.nl+31 (0)24 3612551

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)