Game Intervention for Resilience

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Resilience, Psychological

Trauma Exposure

Major Life Stress

Chronic Stress

Treatments

Behavioral: Game-based Intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07235696

EA250229

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a game-based intervention can enhance psychological resilience and promote positive affectivity in adults who have experienced major life stress.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does the game-based intervention improve positive affectivity and mental health compared to a waitlist control group immediately after the intervention and at 3-month follow-up?
Are the mental health benefits of the game-based intervention mediated by improvements in positive affectivity over time?

Researchers will compare the game-based intervention to a waitlist control group to see if the game leads to better emotional and mental health outcomes.

Participants will:

Be randomly assigned to either the game-based intervention group or the waitlist control group
Engage with the assigned program for 10 days within two weeks
Complete psychological assessments before and after the intervention, and again at 3-month follow-up

Enrollment

50 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

23 to 35 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

fluency in oral and written Cantonese or Mandarin;
having experienced at least one major life stress in the recent 5 years (assessed by the Life Stress Index);
normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing.

Exclusion criteria

formal diagnosis of any major psychiatric illnesses or history of suicidal behaviour;
major physical illness, neurological condition or traumatic brain injury;
Intake of medication within the previous 6 months that may affect emotion or cognitive functions;
pregnancy (for women);
prior experience with any commercial computer repair simulation game.