The Impact of an Art and Philosophy-based Intervention on Children's Eco-anxiety

Bishop's University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Hope; Tolerance to Distress; Eco-anxiety; Mental Health; Psychological Distress

Treatments: Other: Art and philosophy intervention (APBI); Other: Art based intervention (ABI)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06937021

102683

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: To examine the impact of climate change on children's mental health by comparing the effectiveness of an arts only intervention (ABI) and an arts and philosophy-based intervention (APBI) on children's eco-anxiety, tolerance to distress and hope for the future in school settings. The investigators hypothesized that the children assigned to the combined arts and philosophy intervention would show reductions in self-reported eco-anxiety, as well as increases in tolerance to distress and hope for the future in the context of climate change, when compared to children assigned to the arts-only intervention.

Setting: This study is conducted in public primary schools from England. Participants: Participants are students in grades 3 to 6. Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary outcome is self-reported eco-anxiety scores. Secondary outcomes are self-reported tolerance to distress, hope for the future and mental health (depression and anxiety symptoms).

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being an elementary school student

Exclusion criteria

• not being an elementary school student

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Art-based intervention (ABI)

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Art based intervention (ABI)

Arts and philosophy intervention (APBI)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Art and philosophy intervention (APBI)