Game Based Assessment of Emotion-regulation Skills in College Students

Emotion Regulation Clinical Trial

Official title:

Game Based Assessment of Emotion-regulation Skills in College Students

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05896085
• Other study ID #: REThin Academy - assessment
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: November 29, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Babes-Bolyai University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study will be to investigate the validity of the in-game performance measurements or scores as indicators of students'ER abilities.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 290
• Est. completion date: November 29, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: November 29, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• first year student at Babes-Bolyai University
• internet and PC access to complete the scales and game

Exclusion Criteria:

• no internet or PC access

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Assessment
• Emotion Regulation

Intervention

Other:
• REThink game
The Rethink therapeutic game is an online game developed based on Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy and has two versions: for children and adolescents and for adults. The Rethink therapeutic game for adults is available in 3D and VR version and consists of four levels, each of them training a specific emotion regulation ability such as: emotional awareness, mindfulness, cognitive change

Locations

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

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Babes-Bolyai University	The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Romania, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mental Health	The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12 by Goldberg &Williams,1988 is a self-report scale measuring mental health on a 6-point Likert scale ranging from 0 "never" to 5 "everyday" where grater scores represents better mental health.	baseline, pre-intervention
Primary	Emotion regulation	The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ; Garnefski, Kraaij, & Spinhoven, 2001) is a self-report scale measuring emotion regulation on a 5 point Likert scale ranging from "almost never" to "almost always". It had 9 subscales representing 9 emotion regulation strategies and grater scores represents grater involvement in using that strategy.	baseline, pre-intervention
Secondary	MAAS	Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M. (2003). Mindful attention awareness scale. Journal of personality and social psychology The Mindfull Attention Awareness Scale is a 15 items self-report scale, rated on 5 point Likert scale from "almost never" to "almost always", where greater scores represents better mindfulness.	baseline, pre-intervention
Secondary	Rational and irrational cognition	Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014) is a 24-items self-report scale that measures the presence of rational and irrational cognitions. It has two subscales one for rational cognitions and one for irrational cognitions. Greater scores at each scale represents more rational/irrational cognitions in an individual. Items are rated on a 5 point Liker scale ranging from "totally disagree" to "totally agree".	baseline, pre-intervention
Secondary	Atention to positive and negative information	Attention to Positive and Negative Information Scale Noguchi, K., Gohm, C. L., & Dalsky, D. J. (2006). Cognitive tendencies of focusing on positive and negative information. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(6), 891-910. It is a self- report scale for measuring the attention to positive or negative information. It is rated on a 5 point Likert scale ranging "not at all" to " completely conform"and it has 29 items. Grater scores at this scale represent more attantion toward a specific type of information-negative or positive.	baseline, pre-intervention
Secondary	emotional distress	Distress and positive emotions: Profile of Affective Distress Plus; PED Opris & Macavei, 2007 is a self-report scale that measure distress. It had 42 items rated on a 5 point Liker scale ranging from "not al all" to "a lot" and grater scores represent grated level of distress.	baseline, pre-intervention
Secondary	emotional awareness	The Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ, Rieffe et al., 2008) is a 32-item questionnaire on a three-point Liker scale, from 0 "not true" to 2 "certainly true" where greater scores represents better levels of emotional awareness.	baseline, pre-intervention