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Game Intervention for Resilience

NCT07235696 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2026-05-01

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a game-based intervention can enhance psychological resilience and promote positive affectivity in adults who have experienced major life stress.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does the game-based intervention improve positive affectivity and mental health compared to a waitlist control group immediately after the intervention and at 3-month follow-up?
* Are the mental health benefits of the game-based intervention mediated by improvements in positive affectivity over time?

Researchers will compare the game-based intervention to an active control group and a waitlist control group to see if the game leads to better emotional and mental health outcomes.

Participants will:

* Be randomly assigned to the game-based intervention group, the psychoeducation intervention group (as active control group), or the waitlist control group
* Engage with the assigned program for 10 days within two weeks
* Complete psychological assessments before and after the intervention, and again at 3-month follow-up

Conditions

  • Chronic Stress
  • Trauma Exposure
  • Resilience, Psychological
  • Major Life Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Game-based Intervention

This intervention is a two-week game-based program designed to enhance psychological resilience and positive affectivity in individuals who have experienced major life stress. The game incorporates emotionally engaging features such as reward mechanisms, adaptive challenge levels, and implicit emotion-regulation cues. Unlike traditional psychoeducation or mindfulness-based interventions, this program uses interactive gameplay to target affective and cognitive processes associated with resilience.

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducation intervention

The psychoeducation intervention will teach strategies to identify and regulate emotions, challenge negative thinking styles, improve mental flexibility, encourage optimism and active coping under adversity, and highlight the importance of self-value, life style and social support. Participants will watch the psychoeducation materials for 1 hour/day, 5 days/week, 2 weeks in total.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
23 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-07-15
Primary Completion
2026-12-20
Completion
2026-12-20

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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