This activity will have the objectives of preliminary testing user satisfaction, the feasibility of the platform and its preliminary efficacy
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
165
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.
PsyPills is a mobile app designed to provide personalized psychological pills
Babes-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
Levels of rational and irrational beliefs
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")
Time frame: Baseline
Changes in levels of rational and irrational beliefs
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")
Time frame: Post-intervention (one week after the intervention)
Emotion regulation abilities
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.
Time frame: Baseline
Changes in emotion regulation abilities
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.
Time frame: Post-intervention (one week after the intervention)
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