Clinical trial NCT04509531: Building Resilience in Cyberbullying Victims
Official title: Development of Resilience Against Cyberbullying Victimization
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cyberbullying
Depression
Non Suicidal Self Injury
Social Anxiety
Eating Disorders
Keywords: Adolescence
Prevention
Cyberbullying
Depression
Non Suicidal Self Injury
Social Anxiety
Eating Disorders
Lead sponsor: University of Deusto
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Fundación Alicia Koplowitz
First posted: 2020-08-12
Enrollment: 850
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio blocked by gender to one of two groups: experimental condition (SA, ITP and resilience condition) versus control condition (anti-grooming/sexting condition) in parallel for the duration of the study.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study evaluates the effectiveness of a wise intervention based on self-affirmation (SA) and Implicit Theories of Personality (ITP) building resilience in victims. Half of the participants will receive the experimental intervention, while the other half will receive a control intervention.

Detailed description: Bullying victimization can harm victims' mental health. Numerous studies have shown that, when an adolescent is a victim of cyberbullying, the risk of developing numerous mental health problems increases. Tackling the problem of cyberbullying victims' worsening mental health involves at least (1) reducing bullying itself, as this would reduce the prevalence of victimization, and (2) building resilience in the victims so that their mental health does not worsen. In recent years, a number of preventive interventions have been developed aimed at reducing cyberbullying but not so much focused on building resilience in the victims. Very recently, interest in scientific social psychology has grown due to a new approach to interventions, which have been called "wise interventions." This approach involves a set of rigorous techniques, based on theory and research, that address specific psychological processes to help people thrive in various life environments. The main objective of this project is to extend the previous findings to the mental health effects of online victimization in adolescents. In this project it will be designed and evaluated the effectiveness of an wise intervention aimed at (1) reducing online bullying, as this would reduce the prevalence of victimization; and (2) building resilience in victims so that the negative impact of victimization on their mental health will be reduced. The secondary objective will be to evaluate the moderating role of gender and the degree of development in the effects of the intervention.The study will involve the evaluation of the intervention in a sample of around 600 adolescents randomly allocated to experimental and control condition.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Spanish or Basque understanding
* Permission by parents
* Voluntarity

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline scores of the Cyber Bullying Questionnaire (CBQ; Calvete et al., 2010; Gámez-Guadix, Villa-George, & Calvete, 2014)
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of the Functional Assessment of Self-Mutilation (FASM; Lloyd, Kelley & Hope, 1997)
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of the reduced version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D; Rueda-Jaimes et al., 2009).
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of the reduced Spanish version of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A; La Greca & Lopez, 1998; Nelemans et al., 2019)
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of the reduced version of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT; Garner & Garfinkel, 1979; EAT-8, Richter, Strauss, Braehler, Altmann & Berger, 2016)
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline scores of Entity and incremental theories (Levy, Stroessner, & Dweck, 1998).
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 hour, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of attitude towards cyberbullying measure
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 hour, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of attitude towards different courses of action measure
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 hour, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of the anticipation of reactions and behaviors measure
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 hour, 3 months, and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline scores of the intention to use different strategies when the adolescent is exposed to diverse stressors
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 hour, 3 months, and 6 months.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bilbao
country: Spain
facility: University of Deusto
state: Bizkaia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Deusto
name: Esther Calvete, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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