NCT05257642

Testing the Efficacy of REThink Main Game-based ER Strategies on the Stress Reactivity

Testing the Usability of the REThink Game and the Efficacy of Its Main Game-based ER Strategies on the Stress Reactivity of Children and Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 146 (actual)
• Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This activity will aim to test the comparative efficacy of the main game-based emotion-regulation abilities training of the REThink online game: cognitive change, biofeedback and problem-solving in reducing stress reactivity of the children and adolescents

Detailed description

Children included in this study (aged 8-16 years, G\*Power estimated N=98) will be allocated to one of the three experimental conditions (cognitive change, biofeedback and problem-solving game based training based on the REThink online game levels), or no intervention Control condition. All children will be exposed afterwards to psychosocial stress in the form of peer rejection "ball toss" task. It will be measure both game-based skills outcomes, and EMA stress reactivity outcomes.

Conditions

• Emotion Regulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	REThink Game	REThink is a online therapeutic game developed by David and collaborators (2018), proved to be an efficient intervention to reduce emotional symptoms of children and adolescents.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-10
• Primary completion: 2022-10-15
• Completion: 2022-11-15
• First posted: 2022-02-25
• Last updated: 2024-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Romania