NCT05665933

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Test Anxiety

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Test Anxiety in Adolescents

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Artvin Coruh University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation on test anxiety, study skills and psychological flexibility on adolescents. test anxiety scale, study skills scale and psychological flexibility scale are data collection tools. The pretest-posttest is a randomized controlled trial. Experimental and control groups were formed. A 6-week psychoeducation will be applied to the experimental group.

Detailed description

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation given to adolescents on test anxiety, study skills and psychological flexibility.The research was designed as a randomized controlled study with pretest, posttest, experimental and control groups aiming to examine the results of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based psychoeducation for test anxiety and study skills. The number of effects of the study was targeted by the randomization method among the adolescents who met the inclusion criteria and accepted the application. In the power analysis, the evaluation of the number of increase is aimed at 0.05 aggression level at the 95% confidence interval, and 52 adolescents, 26 experimental and 26 control groups, to reach 80% power. Randomization methods were used so that individuals could be assigned to the experimental groups with equal chance, similar to the scores they obtained from the laboratory test anxiety periods. 52 adolescents who met the clinical research criteria for randomization were divided into 2 groups using the irregular numbers table, this group was named as the experimental and control groups by drawing lots. The group that came out first in the lottery at this stage was accepted as the experimental group. Psychoeducation is planned to be held between December 2022 and February 2023.

Conditions

• Therapy, Directly Observed

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY-BASED PSYCOEDUCATION	Total Duration: 6 Weeks Session Duration: 90 min Frequency: 1 day per week Number of People: 30

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-15
• Completion: 2023-07-01
• First posted: 2022-12-27
• Last updated: 2023-01-05

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)