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REThink for Mental Health of Youths in Romania

ConditionsBullying VictimisationBullying of ChildBullying Behavior
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age10-24
SponsorBabes-Bolyai University

About this trial

In order to test the effect of the intervention, a multi-center randomized control trial (RCT) will be conducted to test the efficacy of the REThink interventions on improving bullying (both victimization and aggression) and mental health compared with a care as usual group. A minimum of 1000 students from the participating institutions (schools will be able to join based on a recruitment call), will be recruited and randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

internet and PC access to complete the scales and game

Disqualifiers

no internet of PC access

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • REThink Intervention

    Behavioral

    At its core, the REThink game consists of seven levels, each focusing on a specific emotion-regulation skill crucial for emotional health. The game's story is based on the RETMAN character which helps the player fight the power of the "Irrationalizer" who personalizes irrational beliefs. The game is based on cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy - the unified protocol (Barlow et al., 2004) and well-supported Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (Ellis, 1995). Each level is composed of three sublevels, increasing in difficulty, and also has an embedded validated assessment system (composed of a sublevel for each level; David, Tomoiaga \& Fodor, 2024), and can function as a standalone intervention.

Treatment groups

1,000 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Experimental: REThinkExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: ControlNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Bullying

Bullying and Cyberbullying Scale for Adolescents will be used to measure bullying. The scale is composed of 26 items, the minimum score is 26 and the maximum 130. Higher scores represent higher levels of bullying

Time frame
baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention
2

Mental Health

Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale is used for mental healh. For this scale, lower scores represent lower levels of anxiety, depression and stress, the minimum score is 0 and maximum score is 63.

Time frame
baseline assessment
3

Mental Health Stigma

Peer Mental Health Stigmatization Scale measures mental health stigma. Lower scores represent an improvement.

Time frame
baseline assessment
4

Stress

MoodWheel instrument is used to measure stress. The scale is composed of 32 items representing emotions which are divided into four subscales: positive functional emotions, positive dysfunctional emotions, negative functional and negative dysfunctional emotions. Scores at each subscale represent higher levels of that category of emotion.The minimum score is 0 and the maximum is 160.

Time frame
baseline assessment

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Babes-Bolyai University

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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