NCT05424601

Intervention in a Small-scale Study of Game Based Cognitive Change Skills

Testing the Modular Intervention in a Small-scale Study of Game Based Cognitive Change ER Skills Coaching with or Without EMI

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 165 (actual)
• Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This activity will have the objectives of preliminary testing user satisfaction, the feasibility of the platform and its preliminary efficacy

Detailed description

Preliminary efficacy will be tested in an emotion-regulation framework. Children included in this study will be allocated to play Level 4 of the REThink game on cognitive change or to no intervention Control condition. Children and adolescents in the intervention group will be distributed afterwards in two groups: with or without ecological momentary intervention (EMI) using the PsyPills app for following-up with the cognitive change ER personalized strategy reminder during a real exam situation. Outcomes considered will be stress reactivity (both subjective and physiological) using EMA before, during and after the test (Colombo et al., 2020), and cognitive change, namely irrational and rational beliefs, and reflective functioning improvements.

Conditions

• Emotion Regulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	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.
BEHAVIORAL	PsyPills	PsyPills is a mobile app designed to provide personalized psychological pills

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-10
• Primary completion: 2022-09-05
• Completion: 2022-09-07
• First posted: 2022-06-21
• Last updated: 2024-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Romania