REBT Intervention Program for Career Decision-making Difficulties in High School Pupils

Psychological Distress Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effectiveness of an REBT Intervention Program on the Reduction of Career Decision-making Difficulties in High School Pupils

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03807895
• Other study ID #: 19.175/24.10.2018
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: Babes-Bolyai University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Career decision-making difficulties are frequent problems for adolescents. Regular intervention or prevention programs mainly provide information for the students about themselves, about the world of work, about their interests and preferences etc. Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), a form of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) provides help for adolescents to efficiently cope with emotional problems (e.g., psychological distress) related to the career decision-making process. The present study aims to investigate the efficiency of an REBT career intervention program implemented in a school setting. School settings are appropriate to deliver group intervention for students. Classes from Romanian public high-schools will be randomized in either intervention or treatment as usual groups.

Description:

The intervention will be group based, delivered in 8 sessions, over 8 weeks. Each of the eight modules aimed a different component: Psychoeducation, Information about self and world of work, Steps of career decision-making, Problem solving. Additionally, for the REBT groups: Relationship between cognitive distortions/irrational beliefs and emotions, Cognitive restructuring, Exposure/behavioral activation and emotional problem solving, Maintenance of gaining. Homework would be given at every session. REBT intervention programs delivered in school settings represent ecological modalities to target vulnerable groups. Adolescents will complete assessments at four time points: T1 (baseline), T2 (post-intervention), T3 (3 months follow-up) and T4 (6 months follow-up).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 235
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: January 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years to 19 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescents will have ages 16 years to 19 years (11th grade at high school).

• Are attending high school.

• Parents will sign the informed consent and adolescents provide informed assent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age below 16 or above 19 years.

• No signed informed consent from the parents.

• Uninterpretable answers on the validation items of the CDDQ (items nr. 7 and 12)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Career Decision-making Difficulties
• Psychological Distress
• Worry

Intervention

Behavioral:
• REBT Career Intervention
Eight sessions of regular career intervention with rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) methods.
• Regular Career Intervention
Eight sessions of regular career intervention.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Romania	Babes-Bolyai University	Cluj-Napoca

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Babes-Bolyai University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Romania, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ; Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996)	Measure of career decision-making difficulties.	Change from baseline career decision-making difficulties up to 24 weeks
Secondary	Emotional Distress Profile (PDA; Opris & Macavei, 2005)	Measure of positive emotions, negative functional and negative dysfunctional emotions.	Change from baseline distress up to 24 weeks
Secondary	Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children (PSWQ-C; Chorpita et al., 1997)	Measure of worry for children and adolescents.	Change from baseline worry up to 24 weeks
Secondary	General Attitudes and Beliefs Scale Short Form (GABS-SF; Lindner et al., 1999)	Measure of Irrational Beliefs.	Change from baseline irrational beliefs up to 24 weeks
Secondary	Beck Depression Inventory for Youth (BDI-Y; Beck, 2005)	Measure of depression of adolescents.	Change from baseline depression, anxiety up to 24 weeks
Secondary	Beck Anxiety Inventory for Youth (BAI-Y; Beck, 2005)	Measure of anxiety of adolescents.	Change from baseline anxiety up to 24 weeks
Secondary	Career Decision-making Self-Efficacy Short Form (Betz et al., 1996)	Measure of career decision-making self-efficacy.	Change from baseline career decision-making self-efficacy up to 24 weeks
Secondary	Multidimensional Life Satisfaction (Seligson, Huebner, & Valois, 2003)	Measure of five areas of life satisfaction.	Change from baseline life satisfaction up to 24 weeks