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A Virtual Peer Agent for Counseling Adolescents With Stressful Life Events

NCT07305064 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2025-12-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aims to develop and evaluate a virtual companion agent for providing psychological support to adolescents who have recently experienced stressful life events. This is a single-arm, pre-post pilot trial. We plan to recruit 35 adolescents aged 14-25 to receive a 4-week intervention via the virtual agent. The intervention primarily consists of multi-turn conversations focused on helping adolescents cope with stressful events, identify emotions, enhance social support, and adopt positive coping strategies. The primary objectives are to evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual agent in improving psychological symptoms, resilience, emotional intelligence, and perceived stress, and to comprehensively assess its feasibility, acceptability, and safety.

Conditions

  • Adolescent - Emotional Problem
  • Agent
  • Psychological
  • Conversational

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Peer Agent Counseling

A conversational virtual agent designed to provide psychological support to adolescents through multi-turn dialogues. Intervention components include: psychoeducation, emotion recognition training, coping strategy development, social support exploration, and personalized behavioral task ("to-do list") setting. The intervention lasts for 4 weeks, involving multiple structured session nodes and follow-up reminders during inter-session intervals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sun Yat-sen University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wei Xia · Sun Yat-sen University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-12-05
Primary Completion
2026-01-10
Completion
2026-01-30

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