NCT06085872

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

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 327 (actual)
• Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Emotion Regulation
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	REThink Life Game	REThink Life Game is the therapeutic game that uses psychological science to help youths find their superhero emotional strengths! It is composed of four levels, each training a specific emotion regulation ability: emotion recognition, mindfulness and relaxation, cognitive change and positive bias.
BEHAVIORAL	PsyPills	PsyPills is a self-help psycho-educational instrument intended to build stress resilience and to target (only) mild and transient negative mood states, alone or in combination with other methods/instruments. Psychological Pills (PsyPills) are inspired by Rational-Emotive \& Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT/REBT), which has strong evidence for its efficacy/effectiveness in human development/health promotion and in the treatment of a variety of psychological conditions. The PsyPills app was tested in a pilot study and showed positive effects on reducing distress. The efficacy of the app adjunct to other therapeutic tools within the platform in our projects will be tested.
BEHAVIORAL	MoodWheel	Mood Wheel is a web and mobile-based app that uses experience sampling procedures for the assessment of current/previous distress and positive emotions. The aim of the app is to inquire about the valence, control and functionality of users' emotions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-20
• Primary completion: 2024-04-20
• Completion: 2024-12-25
• First posted: 2023-10-17
• Last updated: 2025-01-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Romania