Assessment of Emotion-regulation Skills in Game-based Situations

Emotional Problem Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Validity of In-game Performance Measurements or Scores as Indicators of Children's Emotional Regulation Abilities

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04788901
• Other study ID #: 1693/22.02.2021
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 5, 2021
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: Babes-Bolyai University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of the study is to investigate the validity of in-game scores as indicators for emotional regulation abilities in children and adolescence.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 110
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: January 15, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 10 Years to 14 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• children and adolescents between 10 and 14 years
• provided written parental consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Intellectual disability or physical limitations precluded the use of the computer program
• Had a major mental health disorder

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Emotional Problem

Intervention

Other:
• REThink therapeutic game
REThink is a online therapeutic game developed by David and collaborators (2018), proved to be an efficient intervention to reduce emotional symptoms of children and adolescents.

Locations

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

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	Emotion-regulation	The Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA; Biesecker & Easterbrooks, 2001). It is a 13-item on a five-point Likert scale, from 0 "strong disagreement" to 5"strong agreement" where higher scores represent better emotional regulation abilities,	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)
Primary	Strengths and difficulties	Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire - child version (SDQ; Goodman, 1997). It is a 25-item on a three-point Liker scale, from 0 "not true" to 2 "certainly true" where lower scores represent an improvement or lack of problems.	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)
Primary	Emotional symptoms	The Child Behavior Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) is a parent-report of child emotional and behavioral problems. Each item is rated on a 3-point Likert-style scale ranging from 0 (not true) to 2 (very true or often true). The DSM-derived affective and anxiety scales and the anxious/depressed and withdrawn/depressed syndrome scales, respectively, will be used to assess emotional symptoms.	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)
Primary	Emotion recognition	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".	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)
Primary	Compassion	Compassion Scale for Children (CSC, Nas & Sak, 2020) is a 20-items scale rated on a five points Likert scale from "Never" to "Always" where higher scores means higher levels of compassion.	Pre-intervention (one day before the intervention)