Guided and Unguided Therapeutic Game to Improve Emotional Abilities of Students

Babes-Bolyai University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emotional Stress

Treatments: Other: Rethink therapeutic game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04763954

1396/ 10.02.2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to investigate the efficiency of a therapeutic online game, with and without coaching, in training emotional abilities of students.

Full description

The study is a randomized control trial with three groups. We will perform measurements before the intervention, after the intervention and at one month follow-up.

Participants will be students and will be randomized into three groups using a randomization program. The first group will be the gaming with coaching group, the second group will bw the gaming without coaching group and the third group will be the control group.

Measurements will be performed before receiving the game, after the intervention and at one month follow-up. We will measure depression, anxiety, stress and well-being as primary outcomes, solution focus orientation as secondary outcome and rational and irrational cognitions as mechanism outcome. All questionnaires will be completed online in a Google Form.

The intervention will consist of the Rethink game. Rethink is a therapeutic game developed and tested to improve emotional abilities in children. Participants in our study will test two levels of Rethink as well as a trial version of the game. Each level of the game is focused on a component:

• Level 1: recognition of emotions
• Level 2: relaxation and mindfulness
• Level 3: rational and irrational cognitions
• Level 4:changing the cognitions
• Level 5: problem-solving
• Level 6: positive emotions
• Level 7: summary of previous aqusitions

Enrollment: 139 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being a student in a public or private university from Romania

Exclusion criteria

• not being enrolled as a student in a university from Romania

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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139 participants in 3 patient groups

Game

Experimental group

Description:

Group that receives the game intervention (the trial version and the access to level 2 and level 7

Treatment:

Other: Rethink therapeutic game

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Group without intervention

Guidance

Experimental group

Description:

Group that receives the game (the same levels as group 1) and email coaching one day after completing the game.

Treatment:

Other: Rethink therapeutic game