Psychobiological Evaluation of the Army Resilience Training (OpPHX)

Military Academy at ETH Zurich

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological Adaptation; Psychological Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Army Resilience Training; Other: Diversity Management Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03242837

Project ID 2017-00841

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the influence of a resilience training on psychobiological factors which are related to stress and resilience in young healthy male cadets. Half of participants will join in the resilience training, while the other half take part in a control-training (diversity management training).

Full description

The resilience training (Army Resilience Training / ART) is a stress prevention program based on well established methods from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Positive Psychology adapted for the needs of Swiss Armed Forces. ART is designed for healthy subjects to learn how to get over strain.

Diversity management training (DMT) aims to promote social skills and acts as control condition. DMT is part of the military training but not mandatory for the study population.

Enrollment: 91 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 28 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• military cadets of the Swiss Army Infantry Officers School Inf OS 10-1/17

Exclusion criteria

• no

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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91 participants in 2 patient groups

Army Resilience Training

Experimental group

Description:

Resilience training: four training sessions of 90 minutes each (in week 3, 5, 6 and 7 of military training), in classroom, psychoeducational inputs on stress management and resilience related topics, cognitive behavioral interventions and moderated exercises

Treatment:

Behavioral: Army Resilience Training

Diversity Management Training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Diversity Management: four training sessions of 90 minutes each (in week 3, 5, 6 and 7 of military training), classroom, psychoeducational inputs on social awareness and exercises

Treatment:

Other: Diversity Management Training