An Integrative Intervention for Preventing Children's Emotional Disorders

Oana David294 enrolled

Overview

The general objective of the study is to test an online platform for the prevention of emotional disorders in children aged 8-12 without any clinical symptoms.

The general objective of the study is to test an online platform for the prevention of emotional disorders in children aged 8-12 without any clinical symptoms. The game will be used by children and adolescents for a period of four weeks. Pre-test and post-test measurements will be taken.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

294

Conditions

Emotional Problem

Interventions

Rethink gameBEHAVIORAL

REThink is a online therapeutic game developed by David and collaborators (2018), proved to be an efficient intervention for the reduction of emotional symptoms in children and adolescents.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 8 YearsMax age: 12 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * children aged 8 to 12 years * parental consent provided * al least one answer different than never true on the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire - Short Form (CTQ-SF; Bernstein \& Fink, 1998; Bernstein et al., 2003), measuring dichotomically the presence of Emotional Neglect, Physical Neglect, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse Exclusion Criteria: * intellectual disability or physical limitations precluding the use of the online platform presence of a mental health disorder in the children or their enrolled parent

Locations (1)

Babes-Bolyai University

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Child emotion regulation

The Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA; Biesecker \& Easterbrooks, 2001). The 13 items are measured on a five-point Likert scale, from 0 "strong disagreement" to 5"strong agreement" where higher scores represent better emotional regulation abilitie

Time frame: baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)

Changes in child emotion regulation

Time frame: post-test, one week after the intervention

Children emotional regulation

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; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)

Changes in children emotional regulation

Time frame: post-test, one week after the intervention

child emotional simptoms

SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire "Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998)

Time frame: baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)

Changes in child emotional simptoms

SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998)

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Secondary Outcomes

Children's irrational beliefs

The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality (CASI, Bernard \& Cronan, 1999)

Time frame: baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)

changes in Children's irrational beliefs

The Child and Adolescent Scale of Irrationality (CASI, Bernard \& Cronan, 1999)

Time frame: post-test, one week after the intervention

child behavioral difficulties

SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998) The strengths and difficulties questionnaire: "a pilot study on the validity of the self-report version. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 7:125-130"

Time frame: baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)

Mental health

Time frame: baseline; pre-intervention (one week before the intervention)

Changes child mental health

Time frame: post-test, one week after the intervention