NCT06505629

Paired Emotion Reading Improves Emotion Regulation in Rural Children With ACE

Paired Emotion Reading Improves Emotion Regulation in Rural Children With Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Peking University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of the online Paired Emotion Reading Intervention (PERI) on the emotion regulation of rural children with adverse childhood experiences (ACE), as compared with the online Paired General Reading Intervention (PGRI) group and a Care as Usual (CAU) control group. This study is a cluster randomized controlled trial and will recruit three rural schools, randomly assigning them to PERI, PGRI, or CAU. Each school will recruit 50 children with ACE. Additionally, the investigators will recruit 150 urban children of similar ages to the rural children. Urban and rural children will be randomly paired to form urban-rural reading groups, reading different types of books and engaging in discussions. It is hypothesized that, after the intervention, rural children in the PERI group will show significantly greater improvements in emotion regulation self-efficacy and emotional awareness compared to the PGRI and CAU groups. These group differences are expected to persist at 1-month and 3-month follow-up assessments.

Conditions

• Emotion Regulation
• Adverse Childhood Experience

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	the online Paired Emotion Reading Intervention (PERI)	In the PERI, all children will receive three books about emotion knowledge. The paired reading groups will read and discuss these books over the next six weeks. Before starting the reading sessions, the paired groups will meet online via video to get to know each other and set reading goals. During the reading process, participants will check in daily with their reading progress. From the second week to the fifth week, participants will engage in weekly online discussions about the reading content. These discussions, led by the urban children, will follow a semi-structured discussion guide. The discussions aim to deepen the children's understanding of the book content and facilitate the application of emotion-related knowledge and emotion regulation strategies in their daily lives. The discussion sessions will be recorded and uploaded for regular review by the researchers.
BEHAVIORAL	the online Paired General Reading Intervention (PGRI)	Apart from the differences in the reading materials and discussion topics, all other aspects are identical to the PERI group. In the online PGRI, children will read three books of their choice, and discussions will center around general reading experiences and feelings.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-06
• Primary completion: 2025-03-30
• Completion: 2025-08-30
• First posted: 2024-07-17
• Last updated: 2024-11-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China