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A Single-session Growth Mindset Intervention for Children and Young People With Mental Health Difficulties

NCT04652362 · Status: SUSPENDED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2022-05-12

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Summary

The present study aims to evaluate whether an online, self-administered, single session intervention (SSI) increases children and adolescents' perceptions of control over external threats and their emotional experience and reduces self-reported symptoms of anxiety and low mood. Children and adolescents, identified by their parents as having difficulties with low mood or anxiety, will be randomised to receive either the growth mindset of personality intervention or an active comparison condition. Whether parental low mood and anxiety has a moderating impact on outcomes will also be investigated.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Growth Mindset Online Single-Session Intervention

During the self-administered single session intervention participants are provided with basic information about the brain and are introduced to the concept of neuroplasticity. The concept of neuroplasticity is applied to personal traits, such as shyness, anxiety and sadness, and young people are taught that these traits are the result of thoughts and feelings in our brain and are amenable to change. Participants are presented with scientific information and research evidence to support the idea that people have the potential to change and are given vignettes from older children detailing how they have used a growth mindset to overcome difficulties. The intervention takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

BEHAVIORAL

Supportive Therapy Online Single-Session Intervention (Control)

The single session supportive therapy intervention was designed to be structurally comparable to the growth mindset intervention, including the same number of reading and writing activities. Participants were provided with information about emotions and the benefits of expressing emotions. Vignettes from older children described times they had shared their emotions with friends and family members.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Royal Holloway University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Harriet Clarkson · Royal Holloway University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-11-10
Primary Completion
2022-12-01
Completion
2022-12-01

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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