Clinical trial NCT04129892: In Favor of My Resilient Self- Effects of an Academic Course on the Emotional Resilience of Students.
Official title: In Favor of My Resilient Self- Effects of an Academic Course on the Emotional Resilience of Students, While Comparing Sciences and Social Studies Faculties.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Preventive Therapy
Keywords: Resilience
Academic course
College students
Lead sponsor: Tel Hai College
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-10-17
Enrollment: 322
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The course " In Favor of My Resilient Self" will guide participants to develop their strength sources, as well as practice self-calming and self-controlling exercises.

The main goals of the course are to:

1. Measure the effects on the emotional resilience and confidence of participants.
2. Assess differences in the course's affect on students from the faculty of sciences compared with students from the faculty of social studies.
3. Understand the mechanisms of the effects.

Results will be measured using the study questionnaire, to be filled out by the participants before, after, and three months after the completion of the course.

Detailed description: The online Bachelor's degree course " In Favor of My Resilient Self" provides updated information regarding the term 'emotional resilience' and its mediating factors. Through weekly lessons and assignments, it will guide participants to developing an internal perspective on their strength sources, as well as practice self-calming and self-controlling exercises.

The main goals of the course are to:

1. Measure the effects on the emotional resilience and confidence of participants.
2. Assess differences in the course's affect on students from the faculty of sciences compared with students from the faculty of social studies.
3. Understand the mechanisms of the effects.

Results will be measured using the study questionnaire, to be filled out by the participants before, after, and three months after the completion of the course. The questionnaire will include validated questionnaires with good psychometric qualities. The study protocol was approved by Tel Hai College institutional review board. All participants, in the intervention (course participants) and in the control group (students of both faculties that didn't attend the course), received information about the program and the study and were asked to provide informed consent.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students at Tel Hai College that are interested in participating in the study, and provided informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students that did not provide informed consent to participate in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)
timeFrame: Measured three times over six months: at baseline, after the course ends, and three months after the completion of the course, measuring a change in scores
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4R)
timeFrame: Measured three times over six months: at baseline, after the course ends, and three months after the completion of the course, measuring a change in scores
measure: Change from Baseline in Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE)
timeFrame: Measured three times over six months: at baseline, after the course ends, and three months after the completion of the course, measuring a change in scores
measure: Change from Baseline in Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21)
timeFrame: Measured three times over six months: at baseline, after the course ends, and three months after the completion of the course, measuring a change in scores
measure: Change from Baseline in Body Esteem Scale (BES)
timeFrame: Measured three times over six months: at baseline, after the course ends, and three months after the completion of the course, measuring a change in scores
measure: Change from Baseline in The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)
timeFrame: Measured three times over six months: at baseline, after the course ends, and three months after the completion of the course, measuring a change in scores
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kiryat Shmona
country: Israel
facility: Tel Hai Academic College
state: North Of Israel
Study officials:
affiliation: Tel Hai College
name: Moria Golan, Prof.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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