Investigating the Effects of Play Therapy Techniques on Learned Helplessness and Social Comparison Levels in Children Living in an Orphanage

Muş Alparslan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Comparison; Learned Helplessness

Treatments: Behavioral: play therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07137325

134665

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of play therapy techniques on the learned helplessness levels and social comparison tendencies of children living in children's homes.

Full description

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of play therapy techniques on the learned helplessness levels and social comparison tendencies of children living in children's homes.

Method: The study was conducted using a randomized experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group. The research sample consisted of 39 children living in children's homes affiliated with the Ministry of Family and Social Services in Türkiye. Participants were randomly assigned to experimental (n=21) and control (n=18) groups. The experimental group received a six-week structured play therapy program. Data were collected using a Personal Information Form, the Learned Helplessness Scale, and the Social Comparison Scale, and nonparametric tests were used in analyses.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Living in a children's home,
• Continuing education,
• Having no hearing or vision problems.

Exclusion criteria

• those who do not meet the inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Play therapy techniques were applied for 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: play therapy

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

no intervention was implemented