How to Optimally Train Emotional and Social Skills

Mental Health Clinical Trial

Official title: How to Optimally Train Emotional and Social Skills

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare different well-being intervention components in healthy individuals. The main question it aims to answer is how an optimal emotional and social learning program should be composed. Participants will participate in one of 16 courses over 14-weeks which will have a varying combination of four components:

• emotion regulation,

• mindfulness,

• self-acceptance and

• resource activation.

For each of these components there will be a control component. Further, there will be a waitlist-control-group included.

Clinical Trial Description

Background: Social-emotional skills are of great importance for academic and professional success and are a huge protective factor of mental health.

Objectives: The aim of the study therefore is to examine the optimal combination of different well-being intervention components to foster mental health and subjective well-being in a student and trainee population. The investigators draw on current concepts like mindfulness which already proved to be empirically effective and try to compare their effectiveness and understand how they work together, whether they strengthen or complement each other.

Methods: In a factorial design trial with 16 different intervention conditions, up to 240 students or trainees will participate in a 14-week well-being-intervention. This intervention with a maximum of 15 participants per course consists of weekly 1,5h sessions plus 3 full-day appointments using psycho-educational elements, practical exercises and group discussion on various topics. Participants will complete online surveys on subjective and psychological well-being, mental health, and several resilience factors pre-, during and post-intervention as well as 5 months after completion as follow-up assessments.

Implications: The study will contribute to an evidence-based and easily accessible and scalable well-being intervention, supporting health promotion and stress prevention in the general population. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mental Health

• NCT number: NCT05945992
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• Contact: Sarah Franziska Tran-Huu, Dr.
• Phone: +49 6131 3929082
• Email: stranhuu@uni-mainz.de
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 2023
• Completion date: July 2024