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Social Competence Training for Adolescents With Borderline Intellectual Functioning

NCT00692081 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 77

Last updated 2008-06-06

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Summary

Emotional and behavioural problems as well as a lack of social competence are supposed to be common phenomena in adolescents with borderline intellectual functioning, consequently impairing their social and vocational integration. Considering the lack of evaluated group interventions for this population, a cognitive-behavioural training is developed and its effectiveness is examined in a population of students attending special vocational schools.

77 adolescents with borderline intelligence are enrolled participated in the study. They are randomized either to the intervention group, who received 9 group sessions over a period of 3 months additionally to the standard vocational training (Social Competence Training for Adolescents with Borderline Intelligence, SCT-ABI) or to the control group who received only the standard vocational training. Outcome measures at the end of the intervention and at a 6-months follow-up assessment comprise self-reports, caregiver-reports, and behavioural observations of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural factors of social competence.

Conditions

  • Mental Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social competence training

8 group sessions multi-modal social competence training, 2-4 hours each, 2 trainers, 6-10 participants

BEHAVIORAL

Special vocational training

as provided in German special centres for vocational training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Ulm

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lutz Goldbeck, Ph.D. · University Ulm

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
23 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

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