Psychological Distress Clinical Trial
— TRESPASSOfficial title:
The Role of Mentalization, Emotional Regulation and Loneliness in College Students' Psychological Distress
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate mental health and academic motivation in university students asking help to university counselling service (UCS) in Southern Italy before anf after four weekly psychological sessions. The main question it aims to answer are: - is the psychological counselling intervention useful in improving psychological distress and academic motivation - which psychological variables predict the intervention outcome
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 100 |
Est. completion date | December 31, 2025 |
Est. primary completion date | December 31, 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years to 30 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - being university students who asked psychological help to university counselling service and completed the intervention Exclusion Criteria: - do not speak Italian |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Italy | University of Campania | Caserta |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" |
Italy,
Auerbach RP, Alonso J, Axinn WG, Cuijpers P, Ebert DD, Green JG, Hwang I, Kessler RC, Liu H, Mortier P, Nock MK, Pinder-Amaker S, Sampson NA, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi A, Andrade LH, Benjet C, Caldas-de-Almeida JM, Demyttenaere K, Florescu S, de Girolamo G, Gureje O, Haro JM, Karam EG, Kiejna A, Kovess-Masfety V, Lee S, McGrath JJ, O'Neill S, Pennell BE, Scott K, Ten Have M, Torres Y, Zaslavsky AM, Zarkov Z, Bruffaerts R. Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. Psychol Med. 2016 Oct;46(14):2955-2970. doi: 10.1017/S0033291716001665. Epub 2016 Aug 3. Erratum In: Psychol Med. 2017 Nov;47(15):2737. — View Citation
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | psychological distress | To measure psychological distress and problems, the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) (Barkham et al., 1998; Evans et al., 2000). The CORE-OM is a 34-item self-report measure that evaluates the level of psychological distress will be used. The measure covers four domains: subjective well-being (4 items), problems/symptoms (depression: 4 items, anxiety: 4 items, physical problems: 2 items, trauma: 2 items); life/social functioning (close relationships: 4 items, social relationships: 4 items, general functioning: 4 items), and risk to self and others (6 items). Higher scores indicate higher levels of distress. To distinguish between clinical and non-clinical cut-off values, the four dimensions (scales for both males and females) indicated in the original validation and the Italian version (Evans et al., 2002; Palmieri et al., 2009) will be considered. | before and after the treatment, up to 7 weeks | |
Primary | Academic motivation | The Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) is a 20-item self-report questionnaire designed to evaluate the regulation of motivation based on the self-determination theory. Academic motivation is conceptualized according to the degree of autonomy on which the individual behavior is based, expressed through a continuum of increasing self-determination, from not self-determined (amotivation pole) to self-determined (autonomous regulation pole) behavior, from being externally motivated to becoming internally and autonomously driven to perform certain behaviors. The items are rated on a five-point Likert scale (0 = does not correspond at all to 7 = corresponds exactly) and distributed in five subscales--amotivation, external regulation, introjected regulation, identified regulation, and intrinsic motivation. Scores frange from 0 to 140. High score subscale indicates higher endorsement of that motivation type. | before and after the psychological intervention, up to 7 weeks | |
Secondary | Emotion regulation ability | The Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is a 36-item multi-dimensional self-report measure of emotion dysregulation and emotion self-regulation strategies. The total scores range from 36 to 180, with higher scores indicating more difficulty in the emotion regulation component measured | before and after the treatment, up to 7 weeks | |
Secondary | perceived loneliness | The University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale version 3 (LS3) is a 20-item self-report measure of an individual's subjective feelings of loneliness. Higher scores indicate greater loneliness. A total score = 47 will be considered indicative of higher-than-normal levels of loneliness. | before and after the intervention, up to 7 weeks | |
Secondary | drop-out intention | Students' intentions to continue or to drop out of the academic course will be measured with self-reported questions. For the present study, the Italian version, which consists of 4 items asking students how often they have thought about not continuing their university degree courses, will be adopted. Scores frange from 4 to 20. Higher scores indicate a greater intention to drop out. | before and after the intervention, up to 7 weeks |
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