An Integrative Platform for Promoting Children's Emotional Health

Babes-Bolyai University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emotional Problem

Treatments: Behavioral: Online parenting program; Behavioral: REThink therapeutic game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04949620

2576/ 18.03.2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

The general objective of the study is to test an online platform for the promotion of emotional health in children

Full description

The project aims at implementing an integrated online therapeutic platform that will be accessed by youth, parents and clinicians. The main original feature is the integration of state of the art online/mobile and gaming technologies into a unique platform that allows easy access to personalized, accessible and validated prevention.

The platform aims to allow access to attractive, easily accessible and evidence-based prevention for youths. The system will be validated in the second step as an integrative, multi-componential and adaptive platform for the prevention of emotional disorders in youth. The platform includes tools that were separately tested in laboratory conditions and found to be effective: the REThink therapeutic video game and the online REThink Parenting and Rational Parent Coach mobile programs.

Enrollment: 256 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children aged 8 to 12 years
• scores above average at any subscale of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire
• parental consent provided
• for the parental intervention: no changes in children's main outcomes following the REThink intervention

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: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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256 participants in 3 patient groups

REThink game, then responder monitoring

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will have access to the REThink game for four weeks; based on their response to the intervention, they will be monitored for an additional period of four weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: REThink therapeutic game

REThink game, then online parent intervention for non-responders

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who are allocated to the REThink game and do not respond to the four-week intervention will be allocated to the online

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online parenting program

Behavioral: REThink therapeutic 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) and the online parenting program (after an additional four weeks).