REThinkWELL- the Use of Therapeutic Game to Reduce Mental Health Symptoms in Children and Adolescents

Babes-Bolyai University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Issue; Emotional Problem

Treatments: Behavioral: REThink therpeutic game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06529510

REThinkWELL

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test the effect of a game-based intervention in reducing clinical and subclinical symptoms of children and adolescents.

Full description

The general objective of the study is to test the REThink therapeutic game for improvements in clinical and subclinical mental health symptoms in children and adolescents aged 8-16 years old from multiple schools and counties. The game will be used by children and adolescents from the experimental group for a period of four weeks. Pre-test and post-test measurements will be taken.

Enrollment: 279 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children and adolescents aged 8 to 16 years
• subclinical level on the SDQ measure, total score, or emotional symptoms
• parental consent provided

Exclusion criteria

• intellectual disability or physical limitations precluding the use of the online game
• does not have parental informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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279 participants in 2 patient groups

REThink game

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will have access to the REThink therapeutic game for four weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: REThink therpeutic game

Care as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group do not receive an intervention but they have access to standard resources from the school