An Integrative Intervention for Preventing Children's Emotional Disorders

Oana David

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emotional Problem

Treatments: Behavioral: Rethink game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05424900

REThink Preventive

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 294 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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294 participants in 2 patient groups

REThink game

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Rethink game

Monitoring

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this arm will be monitored for a total of eight weeks, for comparison with the REThink game intervention (after four weeks).