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Combined Intervention of Long-term Letter Mentoring and Centralized Summer Camp by University Student Volunteers for Disadvantaged Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT07087886 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 497

Last updated 2025-07-28

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a combined intervention of summer camp and letter-writing support works to improve psychological resilience in disadvantaged adolescents in Liangshan, Sichuan. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does the "summer camp + letter-writing" intervention improve resilience in adolescents who face poverty, lack of parental care, or social risks?

Does this intervention reduce depression and anxiety symptoms?

Researchers will compare adolescents who join the summer camp and receive monthly letters to those who do not receive this program to see if the intervention helps their mental health and coping skills.

Participants will:

Attend a 5-day summer camp that includes group games, emotion expression activities, life education, and learning support

Receive monthly letters from trained university student volunteers for about 10 months after the camp. The letters will encourage them, give advice, and help them practice what they learned in the camp

Complete surveys about their resilience, depression, and anxiety before the intervention, during it, at the end, and 6 months later

This study will also look at whether the program is cost-effective, meaning if it brings mental health benefits at a reasonable cost.

Conditions

  • Resilience, Psychological

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Combined Resilience Intervention

A two-phase behavioral intervention aimed at improving psychological resilience among socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. The intervention includes: 1. a 5-day structured summer camp led by trained university student volunteers, featuring psychoeducational group sessions, emotional expression activities, and life skills training, based on SEL, CBT, and positive psychology frameworks; and 2. a 10-month pen-pal letter-writing component, where each child is matched with a trained university volunteer to receive monthly supportive letters. This stage reinforces the gains from the summer camp through sustained emotional support, skill reminders, and positive guidance. The intervention is designed to be low-cost, scalable, and ethically safe, and has been standardized through manuals and training protocols.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Xiaoxuan Liu

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-08-17
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-12-30

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