Testing the REThinkACADEMY Interventions in Prevention of Emotional Disorders in College Students.

Babes-Bolyai University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Emotion Regulation; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: REThink Life Game; Behavioral: PsyPills; Behavioral: MoodWheel

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06085872

REThink Academy- SMARTrial

Details and patient eligibility

About

Entry in the REThinkACADEMY trial will be based on the high distress range on a psychological validate instrument to assess stress. After participants are enrolled in the REThinkACADEMY trial and randomized, those in the experimental condition ill access a ecological momentary intervention (EMI) app for the prevention of emotional disorders for 4 weeks. In the second stage, for the non-responders to the ecological supportive intervention, the online game will be implemented while the rest of the groups will be monitored for another 4 weeks. At the next step, post-test outcomes assessment will be implemented. Long term assessments will be conducted at 6 months for the college student's naturalistic follow-up phase.

Enrollment: 327 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to a first year student enorlled in Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
• internet and PC access to complete the scales and game
• high level of distress based on PDa scores

Exclusion criteria

• no internet or PC access

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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327 participants in 3 patient groups

PsyPills - Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Each recruited student randomized in the experimental group will receive the PsyPills app.

Treatment:

Behavioral: PsyPills

MoodWheel - Monitoring

Active Comparator group

Description:

The students randomized in the control group will complete the MoodWheel app.

Treatment:

Behavioral: MoodWheel

REThink Life Game

Experimental group

Description:

Students from experimental group who do not respond to PsyPills alone will play the REThink Life Game

Treatment:

Behavioral: PsyPills

Behavioral: REThink Life Game