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2024-05-06 @ 10:00 AM
Last Modification Date:
2024-10-26 @ 12:23 PM
Study NCT ID:
NCT03132298
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2019-02-07
First Post:
2017-04-24
Brief Title:
Effects of a Single-session Implicit Theories of Personality Intervention on Early Adolescent Psychopathology
Sponsor:
Harvard University
Organization:
Harvard University
Study Overview
Official Title:
Effects of a Single-session Implicit Theories of Personality Intervention on Recovery From Social Stress and Long-term Psychological Functioning in Early Adolescents
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2019-01
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
The goal of the project is to test whether a single-session intervention teaching incremental theories of personality or the belief that ones personality is malleable can strengthen recovery from social stress and reduce the development of anxiety and depression during early adolescence Results may suggest a scalable cost-effective approach to improving youths coping capacities and preventing adverse mental health outcomes over time
Detailed Description:
Efforts to prevent and reduce mental health problems in youths have advanced greatly in recent years However these advances have not reduced rates of youth mental illness on a large scale Thus a great need exists for novel scalable and low-cost approaches to reducing mental health problems in youth Ideally such approaches would be mechanism-targeted that is they would act on specific developmental processes that underlie psychological disorders The proposed research aims to address this need by testing whether a single-session intervention teaching incremental theories of personality or the belief that ones personality is malleable-as opposed to entity theories of personality or the belief that ones personality is fixed and unchangeable-can strengthen recovery from social stress and prevent the development of anxiety and depression during early adolescence Compared to incremental theories entity theories of personal traits have demonstrated cross-sectional and prospective relations with greater anxiety and depression in youths Further a single-session incremental personality theories intervention reduced the development of depressive symptoms in a community sample of adolescents supporting these theories as powerful intervention andor prevention targets even when taught in a brief format Specifically this project has two aims Aim 1 is to evaluate the effect of the implicit theories intervention on two candidate mechanisms of action or targets identified by prior research arousal measured via physiological reactivity following social stress and loss here perceived loss of behavioral control in youths 12-15 years of age Following a lab-based social stress induction I hypothesize that participants receiving the intervention will recover from stress more rapidly as indicated by measures of arousal heart rate variability electrodermal activity levels and self-reported loss increased self-reported perceived control compared to participants who do not receive the intervention Aim 2 is to evaluate the effects of the single-session incremental theories intervention on anxiety and depression over a nine-month follow-up period I will test whether the intervention compared to a control protocol reduces symptoms of anxiety an depression the development of anxiety and depression I will also assess whether this change is a direct result of shifts in the two aforementioned targets arousal loss I predict more positive trajectories in anxiety and depression for youth receiving the intervention relative to those who do not receive the intervention across nine months I will also test whether these trajectories are mediated by changes in the targets described in Aim 1 Finally regardless of outcomes for Aims 1 and 2 baseline postintervention and 9-month measures will be used to map links among implicit theories interventions targeting those theories social stress recovery and youth anxiety and depression over time Findings may suggest a cost-effective scalable intervention that improves youth resiliency and mental health
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
False
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None
Secondary IDs
| Secondary ID | Type | Domain | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1F31MH108280-01 | NIH | None | None |
| 5F31MH108280-02 | NIH | None | httpsreporternihgovquickSearch5F31MH108280-02 |