REBT Intervention Program for Career Decision-making Difficulties in High School Pupils

NCT03807895 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 19.175/24.10.2018
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 235
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Career decision-making difficulties are frequent problems for adolescents. Regular intervention or prevention programs mainly provide information for the students about themselves, about the world of work, about their interests and preferences etc. Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), a form of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) provides help for adolescents to efficiently cope with emotional problems (e.g., psychological distress) related to the career decision-making process. The present study aims to investigate the efficiency of an REBT career intervention program implemented in a school setting. School settings are appropriate to deliver group intervention for students. Classes from Romanian public high-schools will be randomized in either intervention or treatment as usual groups.

Conditions

Career Decision-making Difficulties; Worry; Psychological Distress

Keywords

career indecision; career decision-making difficulties; worry; psychological distress

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ; Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996)

  Measure of career decision-making difficulties.

  Change from baseline career decision-making difficulties up to 24 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Emotional Distress Profile (PDA; Opris & Macavei, 2005)

  Change from baseline distress up to 24 weeks

• Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children (PSWQ-C; Chorpita et al., 1997)

  Change from baseline worry up to 24 weeks

• General Attitudes and Beliefs Scale Short Form (GABS-SF; Lindner et al., 1999)

  Change from baseline irrational beliefs up to 24 weeks

• Beck Depression Inventory for Youth (BDI-Y; Beck, 2005)

  Change from baseline depression, anxiety up to 24 weeks

• Beck Anxiety Inventory for Youth (BAI-Y; Beck, 2005)

  Change from baseline anxiety up to 24 weeks

Study Arms (2)

REBT Career Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

High-school students in the experiment group attend to eight modules of career intervention with rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) techniques. The eight modules aim a different component: Psychoeducation, Information about the self and the world of work, Steps of Decision making, Relationship between cognitive distortions/irrational beliefs and emotions, Cognitive Restructuring, Exposure/behavior activation and problem solving, Planning, Goal Setting.

Behavioral: REBT Career Intervention

Regular Career Intervention

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

High-school students in the treatment as usual group attend to eight modules of career intervention with regular career intervention techniques. The eight modules aim a different component: Psychoeducation, Information about the self and the world of work, Steps of Decision making, Problem solving, Planning, Goal Setting.

Behavioral: Regular Career Intervention

Interventions

REBT Career Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Eight sessions of regular career intervention with rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) methods.

REBT Career Intervention

Regular Career Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Eight sessions of regular career intervention.

Regular Career Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 16 Years - 19 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Adolescents will have ages 16 years to 19 years (11th grade at high school).
• Are attending high school.
• Parents will sign the informed consent and adolescents provide informed assent.

You may not qualify if:

• Age below 16 or above 19 years.
• No signed informed consent from the parents.
• Uninterpretable answers on the validation items of the CDDQ (items nr. 7 and 12)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Babes-Bolyai University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Babes-Bolyai University

Cluj-Napoca, 400015, Romania

Location

Study Officials

• Anca Dobrean

  Babes-Bolyai University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Grad student

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 15, 2019
• First Posted: January 17, 2019
• Study Start: October 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: January 30, 2019
• Study Completion: April 1, 2019
• Last Updated: August 28, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-08

Locations

RO (1)