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The Effectiveness of a Serious Game Targeting Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Early Adolescents

NCT04808102 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2021-03-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Background: Adaptive interpersonal emotion regulation (iER) is a vital tool for positive relations. During early adolescence, peer relations become increasingly important, making this age group a relevant target group for interventions promoting positive interactions with each other, yet no evidence-based intervention exists for early adolescents specifically.

Methods: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) aims to test effectiveness and feasibility of a serious game training iER skills in early adolescents by comparing outcomes with a control group playing a game without psychoeducational content in a pre- and post-test design. German- and English-speaking early adolescents (10-14 years) are eligible for participation. IER skills improvement assessed by a vignette task is the primary outcome variable and will be analysed with a chi-square test. Feasibility and acceptability and variables such as emotional competence, personal emotion regulation, gender, and sex will be assessed by questionnaires.

Discussion: This RCT will test whether playing serious game about iER strategies will result in an improvement of iER skills and whether the game is feasible and acceptable for early adolescents with the ultimate aim to implement the game in school classes and help early adolescents achieve positive peer relationships.

Conditions

  • Interpersonal Relations

Interventions

DEVICE

IER AG

The game is a web-based single-player adventure game with 3 levels created with the RPG Maker MV. Playtime is approximately 3 hours.

DEVICE

BubbleShooter

A free-to-play arcade browser puzzle game called BubbleShooter.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft

    collaborator OTHER

  • Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Beate Schrank · Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-04-30
Primary Completion
2021-09-30
Completion
2022-03-31

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