Emotional Management in Adolescents

Ankara Medipol University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to be Given to Adolescents; Emotional Regulation

Treatments: Behavioral: Group that will receive emotional regulation training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06849310

E-14588481-605.99-101274183

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to give information about the content of the school-based emotion regulation program study designed for adolescent children to develop their emotion regulation skills. The study is a randomized controlled trial with adolescents aged 14-16 years (9th and 10th grade). Two high schools were selected for the research in Ankara, Türkiye. A face-to-face formal training consisting of four modules of four weeks (50 min/week). Based on the Vibrational Energy Theory, the program will be applied to the intervention group to be selected by the randomization method. The training topics include recognizing and accepting emotions, directed thinking and process orientation, and acceptance and willingness (reinforcement module) modules. With this intervention, adolescents' emotion regulation skills and psychological well-being are expected to increase, and anxiety levels will decrease. The program to be implemented will contribute to the acquiring and developing emotion regulation skills that deal with processes such as awareness, control, management, and acceptance of emotions in adolescents.

Key Words: adolescence, emotion, regulation, school

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• . Criteria for inclusion in the research;

  • continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade,
  • agreeing to participate in the study,
  • giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents,
  • stating that they can participate in the four-week program,
  • speaking Turkish.

Exclusion criteria

• The criteria for exclusion from the study were:

  • the student has a medically diagnosed mental problem that will prevent the student from following the program,
  • the student has a psychological medical diagnosis, and
  • he/she is receiving psychiatric medication or therapy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Participants who will receive emotion regulation training.

Experimental group

Description:

This study was planned as a randomized controlled trial. The 9th and 10th grades of two high schools with the same status in the capital of Türkiye will constitute the sample of the research.Adolescents will be randomized as an intervention and control group after stratification according to the mean score of the scale, gender (girls/boys), and grades (9th and 10th grades). Letters will be given to the intervention and control groups. According to the coin toss method, the letter A will be given to the initiative group and the letter B will be given to the control group. Randomization will be performed by a statistician independent of the research using the www.randomizer.org site. Adolescents will not be informed that they will be an intervention or control group. Criteria for inclusion in the research; (a) continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade, (b) agreeing to participate in the study, (c) giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents, (d) stating t

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group that will receive emotional regulation training

Participants who will receive no intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

All forms will be administered to adolescents in the control group twice, before and after the program (except for the descriptive characteristic data form). After the study is completed, the control group will be given the same training and written material.