Effects of a School-based Cognitive Behavior Intervention combined with Guided Narrative Technique on Negative Emotions and Cognitions in Children after COVID-19 Outbreak

UMIN ID: UMIN000055259

Registered date:24/09/2024

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Complete: follow-up complete
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: There will be two conditions: one intervention group and one control group.
• Date of first enrollment: 2020/12/02
• Target sample size: 230
• Countries of recruitment: Asia(except Japan)
• Study type: Interventional

Intervention(s)

For the intervention group, first, the guardian of the participant will read the informed consent. After the guardian signs the informed consent, the participant will complete the baseline assessment including demographic information, emotional and cognitive measures. The participant will then receive a group cognitive behavioral intervention for 40 minutes each day in consecutive 3 days. The intervention will take place in school classrooms. Counsellors are one senior undergraduate and one first-year PhD student from the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences who have received clinical and counselling training. A senior clinical psychologist will supervise the whole courses. The intervention is based on children's cognitive behavioral therapy, with a self-compiled manual. The three sessions are aimed at improving emotional awareness and management, thoughts recognition, and coping. Each session will be accompanied by the presence of the head teachers. After completing the group intervention, the participant will be required to complete the GNT writing in accordance with the guidelines, and complete two short mood tests and the post-writing assessment for the following 3 days. Each writing session will last for 20-30 minutes. The writing content of the participants will be collected and saved by the researchers for subsequent analysis.
For the active control group, the procedures of informed consent, baseline assessments, cognitive behavior group intervention, and follow-up assessments will be the same as those for the WA. After completing the group intervention, the participants in active control group will be required to complete the GNT drawing in accordance with the guidelines and to complete two short mood tests and the post-painting assessments in the following 3 days. Each drawing session will last for 20-30 minutes.

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: Revised Children anxiety and depression scale will be used to measure anxiety and depression at baseline, pre-writing, post-treatment, 3-month follow-up, and 6-month follow-up.

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: 9years-old
• Age maximum: 11years-old
• Gender: Male and Female
• Exclude criteria: As a school-based universal intervention, all students with consent were included in the study.

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Peking University
• Source(s) of Monetary Support: Peking University