REThink for Mental Health of the Youths in Romania
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: REThink Intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Bullying of Child, Bullying Victimisation, Bullying. Basic parameters: 10 years — 24 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Romania
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
In order to test the effect of the intervention, a multi-center randomized control trial (RCT) will be conducted to test the efficacy of the REThink interventions on improving bullying (both victimization and aggression) and mental health compared with a care as usual group. A minimum of 1000 students from the participating institutions (schools will be able to join based on a recruitment call), will be recruited and randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group.
Interventions
- Behavioral REThink Intervention
At its core, the REThink game consists of seven levels, each focusing on a specific emotion-regulation skill crucial for emotional health. The game's story is based on the RETMAN character which helps the player fight the power of the "Irrationalizer" who personalizes irrational beliefs. The game is based on cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy - the unified protocol (Barlow et al., 2004) and well-supported Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (Ellis, 1995). Each level is composed of three sublevel
Primary outcome measures
- Bullying [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Mental Health [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Mental Health Stigma [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Stress [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Self-compassion [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Compassion [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Emotion regulation [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Trauma Screening [Time frame: baseline assessment, one week before starting the intervention]
- Changes in bullying [Time frame: post-test assessment, one week after finishing the intervention]
- Changes in mental health [Time frame: post-test assessment, one week after finishing the intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- internet and PC access to complete the scales and game
Exclusion criteria
- no internet or PC access
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Romania · 1 center
- Babes-Bolyai University — Cluj-Napoca
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06646159 · REThinkBullying