Counselling Intervention for College Students Experienced Psychological Distress

NCT ID: NCT06333444

Last Updated: 2024-03-27

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-01-01

Study Completion Date

2025-12-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate mental health and academic motivation in university students asking help to university counselling service (UCS) in Southern Italy before anf after four weekly psychological sessions.

The main question it aims to answer are:

* is the psychological counselling intervention useful in improving psychological distress and academic motivation
* which psychological variables predict the intervention outcome

Detailed Description

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The participants will be university students who completed psychological counselling intervention delivered by UCS (University of Campania, Italy). They will be asked to completed an internet-based survey, administered anonymously through Google Forms. The survey consist of two sections. The first section includes questions about sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., gender and age), enrollment year, type of university course attended, academic standing (i.e., whether all exams within the prescribed period had been passed), and previous or current contact with psychological or psychiatric mental health services (university or non-university). The second section comprises four scales that assessed the variables of interest.

To measure psychological distress and problems, the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) will be used. Feelings of loneliness will be assessed using the University of California-Los Angeles Loneliness Scale version 3 (UCLA-LS3). Emotion regulation will be assessed using the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). Students intentions to continue or to drop out of the academic course will be measured with self-reported questions.

Conditions

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University Students Psychological Intervention Psychological Distress

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Four weekly psychological counselling intervention
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Psychological intervention

four weekly psychological counselling intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

four weekly psychological counselling intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

four weekly psychological counselling intervention delivered by university students asking help to university counselling service in Southern Italy

Interventions

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four weekly psychological counselling intervention

four weekly psychological counselling intervention delivered by university students asking help to university counselling service in Southern Italy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* being university students who asked psychological help to university counselling service and completed the intervention

Exclusion Criteria

* do not speak Italian
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

30 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Alda Troncone

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University of Campania

Caserta, , Italy

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Italy

Central Contacts

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Alda Troncone, PhD

Role: CONTACT

+39800252420 ext. +39800252420

Gaia Caldarelli, PhD student

Role: CONTACT

+39800252420 ext. +39800252420

Facility Contacts

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ALDA TRONCONE

Role: primary

References

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Beiter R, Nash R, McCrady M, Rhoades D, Linscomb M, Clarahan M, Sammut S. The prevalence and correlates of depression, anxiety, and stress in a sample of college students. J Affect Disord. 2015 Mar 1;173:90-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.10.054. Epub 2014 Nov 8.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25462401 (View on PubMed)

Batra K, Sharma M, Batra R, Singh TP, Schvaneveldt N. Assessing the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 among College Students: An Evidence of 15 Countries. Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Feb 17;9(2):222. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9020222.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 33671363 (View on PubMed)

Auerbach RP, Alonso J, Axinn WG, Cuijpers P, Ebert DD, Green JG, Hwang I, Kessler RC, Liu H, Mortier P, Nock MK, Pinder-Amaker S, Sampson NA, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi A, Andrade LH, Benjet C, Caldas-de-Almeida JM, Demyttenaere K, Florescu S, de Girolamo G, Gureje O, Haro JM, Karam EG, Kiejna A, Kovess-Masfety V, Lee S, McGrath JJ, O'Neill S, Pennell BE, Scott K, Ten Have M, Torres Y, Zaslavsky AM, Zarkov Z, Bruffaerts R. Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. Psychol Med. 2016 Oct;46(14):2955-2970. doi: 10.1017/S0033291716001665. Epub 2016 Aug 3.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 27484622 (View on PubMed)

Study Documents

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

View Document

Other Identifiers

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n. 08, 09/03/2021

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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