Active Games for Increasing Social and Emotional Competencies of Young Adults in Probation System: a One-Sample Trial Study in Izmir City in Turkiye

Summary

Objective: The goal of this one-sample clinical trial is to implement active games, including physical activities, that support the social and emotional competencies of individuals in probation sentence.

Methods: The study was carried out with 50 young adult offenders. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) model, which defines five social and emotional skills (self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, relationship skills, social awareness), was used to support observation and game design. The present study involved the codesign of a total of 18 active games to develop these five competencies. The primary outcomes of the research were increased mental well-being and increased social emotional skills in participants receiving the AG4C program. The secondary outcome of the research was the regular participation of the participants in the program. In this study, two hypotheses were tested: "The ActiveGames4Change programme increases the psychological wellbeing of young adults on probation" and "The ActiveGames4Change programme increases the 5 basic skills of young adults on probation. This study was carried out with 50 young adult offender individuals (48 male and 2 female) who received probation measures in accordance with the court or prosecutor's decision for different crimes. The CASEL model, which defines social and emotional skills, was used to support observation and game design because it determines the characteristics of young people who are in the execution process. The skill set proposed by the CASEL model included skills such as "self-awareness", "self-management", "social awareness", "relationship skills" and "responsible decision-making".

The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was employed to examine the impact of the intervention on participants' progression of competency levels before and after the intervention.

Conditions

• Substance Use Disorder
• Sports
• Competency Based Education
• Psychological Well Being
• Addiction

Interventions

OTHER

Active Games for Change (AG4C)

This intervention was carried out in Turkiye within the Erasmus+ Key Action 3 project titled Active Games for Change (AG4C). The programme included a series of innovative, face-to-face active games with a non-formal approach that prioritised physical activity, specifically designed to support the development of social and emotional competencies identified for the first time in the field in a probation directorate serving young adult offenders.

BEHAVIORAL

Active Games for Change Group Working

The Active Games for Change intervention program was implemented in Izmir, Türkiye within the Erasmus+ Key Action 3 project titled Active Games for Change (AG4C). The AG4C intervention program included a series of innovative, face-to-face active games with a non-formal approach that prioritised support for developing social and emotional competencies of young adults with substance use problems, for the first time in the field.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• European Commission

  collaborator OTHER

• Ege University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

30 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-01-14

Primary Completion

2022-02-09

Completion

2022-02-09

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations