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A Trial of "Coping Coach," a Web-based Preventive Intervention for Children

NCT01653288 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2019-02-26

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Summary

This study will evaluate the impact of a psychosocial intervention, Coping Coach, delivered online to children who have experience an acute medical event.

The core study hypotheses are that children receiving the intervention will (1) endorse fewer maladaptive trauma-related appraisals and (2) demonstrate more adaptive coping (more support-seeking, more cognitive restructuring, less avoidant coping) at a 6-week follow-up, and (3) demonstrate lower severity of post traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms and higher health related quality of life (HRQOL) at 12 week follow-up.

Conditions

  • Stress Disorders, Post Traumatic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Coping Coach

Coping Coach is a self-guided web-based intervention that utilizes an interactive, developmentally appropriate, game-like format, to provide practical information and teach children adaptive coping strategies. Children are primary users of the intervention, with parent supervision. Modules (20-30 minutes each) can be repeated to solidify skills / learning. The feelings module targets recognition of emotions after potentially traumatic experiences. The appraisals module targets the connection of helpful or unhelpful thoughts to feelings and behavior. The avoidance module targets reducing reliance on avoidance as a (maladaptive) coping response. Promoting social support is folded throughout the intervention. Information will be provided to parents about how to access additional resources and when to get additional professional help.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • The University of Queensland

    collaborator OTHER

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD · Center for Injury Research & Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • United States

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