NCT06646159

REThink for Mental Health of the Youths in Romania

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In order to test the effect of the intervention, a multi-center randomized control trial (RCT) will be conducted to test the efficacy of the REThink interventions on improving bullying (both victimization and aggression) and mental health compared with a care as usual group. A minimum of 1000 students from the participating institutions (schools will be able to join based on a recruitment call), will be recruited and randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group.

Conditions

• Bullying of Child
• Bullying Victimisation
• Bullying

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	REThink Intervention	At its core, the REThink game consists of seven levels, each focusing on a specific emotion-regulation skill crucial for emotional health. The game's story is based on the RETMAN character which helps the player fight the power of the "Irrationalizer" who personalizes irrational beliefs. The game is based on cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy - the unified protocol (Barlow et al., 2004) and well-supported Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (Ellis, 1995). Each level is composed of three sublevels, increasing in difficulty, and also has an embedded validated assessment system (composed of a sublevel for each level; David, Tomoiaga \& Fodor, 2024), and can function as a standalone intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-01
• Primary completion: 2026-09-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2024-10-17
• Last updated: 2024-10-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Romania