Clinical trial NCT06849310: Emotional Management in Adolescents
Official title: Intervention Protocol: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Emotion Regulation Program for Adolescents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emotional Regulation
Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to Be Given to Adolescents
Keywords: adolescence
emotion
regulation
school
Lead sponsor: Ankara Medipol University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Gazi University
First posted: 2025-02-27
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This study was planned as a randomized controlled trial. The 9th and 10th grades of two high schools with the same status in the capital of Türkiye will constitute the sample of the research. Students in one high school will form an intervention group of 40 people, and students in the other high school will form a control group of 40 people. The emotion management program will be applied to the intervention group, and after the program is completed, the control group will be given information about the subject from an ethical point of view and a program booklet. The 40 children in the initiative group will be divided into groups. There will be an average of 13-14 people in each group. A 4-week intervention program will be applied to each group, 50 minutes per week.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This study aims to give information about the content of the school-based emotion regulation program study designed for adolescent children to develop their emotion regulation skills. The study is a randomized controlled trial with adolescents aged 14-16 years (9th and 10th grade). Two high schools were selected for the research in Ankara, Türkiye. A face-to-face formal training consisting of four modules of four weeks (50 min/week). Based on the Vibrational Energy Theory, the program will be applied to the intervention group to be selected by the randomization method. The training topics include recognizing and accepting emotions, directed thinking and process orientation, and acceptance and willingness (reinforcement module) modules. With this intervention, adolescents' emotion regulation skills and psychological well-being are expected to increase, and anxiety levels will decrease. The program to be implemented will contribute to the acquiring and developing emotion regulation skills that deal with processes such as awareness, control, management, and acceptance of emotions in adolescents.

Key Words: adolescence, emotion, regulation, school


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* . Criteria for inclusion in the research;

  * continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade,
  * agreeing to participate in the study,
  * giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents,
  * stating that they can participate in the four-week program,
  * speaking Turkish.

Exclusion Criteria:

* The criteria for exclusion from the study were:

  * the student has a medically diagnosed mental problem that will prevent the student from following the program,
  * the student has a psychological medical diagnosis, and
  * he/she is receiving psychiatric medication or therapy.

Primary outcomes:
measure: The Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire- REQ
timeFrame: 1 mounth
measure: The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
timeFrame: 1 mounth
measure: The Stirling Children's Well-being Scale (SCWBS)
timeFrame: 1 mounth
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