NCT06333444

Counselling Intervention for College Students Experienced Psychological Distress

The Role of Mentalization, Emotional Regulation and Loneliness in College Students' Psychological Distress

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate mental health and academic motivation in university students asking help to university counselling service (UCS) in Southern Italy before anf after four weekly psychological sessions. The main question it aims to answer are: * is the psychological counselling intervention useful in improving psychological distress and academic motivation * which psychological variables predict the intervention outcome

Detailed description

The participants will be university students who completed psychological counselling intervention delivered by UCS (University of Campania, Italy). They will be asked to completed an internet-based survey, administered anonymously through Google Forms. The survey consist of two sections. The first section includes questions about sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., gender and age), enrollment year, type of university course attended, academic standing (i.e., whether all exams within the prescribed period had been passed), and previous or current contact with psychological or psychiatric mental health services (university or non-university). The second section comprises four scales that assessed the variables of interest. To measure psychological distress and problems, the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) will be used. Feelings of loneliness will be assessed using the University of California-Los Angeles Loneliness Scale version 3 (UCLA-LS3). Emotion regulation will be assessed using the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). Students intentions to continue or to drop out of the academic course will be measured with self-reported questions.

Conditions

• University Students
• Psychological Intervention
• Psychological Distress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	four weekly psychological counselling intervention	four weekly psychological counselling intervention delivered by university students asking help to university counselling service in Southern Italy

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2024-03-27
• Last updated: 2024-03-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy