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RecruitingNCT06271954Updated Mar 26, 2024

The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation and Psychiatric Disorder in Youth

An observational study in Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), sponsored by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 15 Years to 24 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-03-26.

Sponsored by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Mar 2025, 1 year 7 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Mar 2023; still recruiting 3 years 7 months later.
Study type
Observational
Model
Case-control
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
200
Ages
15 Years to 24 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

According to the increasing worldwide prevalence rate of psychiatric disorders in youth, the mental health of youth is becoming more and more important.

Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare reported the clibing suicide rate of youth in past five years and showed the prevention work and related intervention for youth's mental health was noteable. The definition of emotion regulation was "consists of the extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features, to accomplish one's goals." Emotion regulation strategies including "rumination", "avoidance", "suppression", "Problem-solving", "reappraisal", "acceptance", "social support", and "distraction".

Previous studies had examined the relationship between emotion regulation and mental health in youth; maladaptive emotion regulation would increase the individual's depressive and anxiety symptoms. Carstensen proposed social emotion theory in 1995 Selectivity theory (SST) refers to the need for emotion regulation, which activates Social participation in late adulthood. SST assumes that young people are more interested in social interaction behaviors related to information seeking and building self-concept. characteristics of youth affected by many normative challenges such as adolescence, school transitions, and more complex social Landscape; Adaptive emotion regulation will reduce risk of clinical emotion attacks of illness, especially depression and anxiety.To explore the relationship between emotion regulation and mental health from a psychosocial developmental aspect, we focused on the interaction between individual and environment. Compared with the previous generation, most youths of this generation were participating in social activities and building up interpersonal relationships through the internet, suggesting the internet was an important social context.

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Conditions studied

  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Anxiety Disorder
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Adjustment Disorder
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In context

Depressive Disorder, Major

3,041 studies on the registry are indexed under Depressive Disorder, Major; 588 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 131 across 400 observational studies indexed under Depressive Disorder, Major.

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Lead sponsor

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is the lead sponsor of 1,096 studies on the registry; 239 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
15 Years to 24 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

Use the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) to assess subjective emotion regulation patterns in community healthy young people's emotion regulation experiences and expressions, and measure personal emotion regulation patterns related to mental health.

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Inclusion criteria

  • The inclusion criteria for the control group are as follows: (1) Understanding the content of the questionnaire. (2) Healthy adolescents aged 15 to less than 18 years and healthy adults aged 18 to 24 years.

The inclusion criteria for the experimental group are:

  1. Understanding the content of the questionnaire.
  2. Adolescents aged 15 to less than 18 years and adults aged 18 to 24 years.
  3. Diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or adjustment disorder according to .

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • The exclusion criteria for the experimental group are diagnoses of:

    1. organic brain injury
    2. schizophrenia
    3. autism spectrum disorder according to .
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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DSM diagnostic criteria

The American Psychiatric Association’s manual of mental health diagnoses. DSM-5 (2013, revised as DSM-5-TR in 2022) replaced DSM-IV, and some studies still name the older edition. “Meets DSM criteria for …” means diagnosed by that edition’s diagnostic criteria, usually by a clinician in an interview.

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Study design

Observational model
Case-control
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)
Target follow-up
1 Year
Patient registry
Yes

Groups and cohorts

  • control

    (1) Understanding the content of the questionnaire. (2) Healthy adolescents aged 15 to less than 18 years and healthy adults aged 18 to 24 years.

  • experimental

    (1) Understanding the content of the questionnaire. (2) Adolescents aged 15 to less than 18 years and adults aged 18 to 24 years. (3) Diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or adjustment disorder according to DSM-5.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The Difference and Similarity in Emotional Regulation Strategy Patterns between Western and Eastern Countries.

    To examine the cultural difference in emotion regulation strategies, we applied CERQ(Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire) to measure the cognitive regulation pattern of the Taiwanese and compared it with research articles that reported the CERQ results in six European countries and China. Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The CERQ includes nine positive/negative adaptive emotion regulation strategies: self-blame, rumination, Blaming others, catastrophizing, acceptance, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective ), each strategy subscale contains 4 questions, a total of 36 questions, and is answered in the form of a five-point scale. Subjects describe each question and circle the options that are consistent with their own situation (never, rarely, sometimes , often, always), each item ranges from 1 "never" to 5 "always", one point per question, no reverse questions.

    Time frame: Each respondent interviews and fills out questionnaires, which takes about 20minutes.

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Chang-Geng Medical Foundation Chang-Geng Memorial Hospital
    Keelung, 204, Taiwan
    Recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Mar 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2025, 23 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 15, 2024
First posted
Feb 22, 2024
StartActual
Mar 27, 2023
Primary completionEst.
Mar 26, 2025
CompletionEst.
Mar 26, 2025
Last update
Mar 26, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 26, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06271954
Responsible party
Tzu-Yu Liu (occpatioal therapist, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 22, 2024
Start date
Mar 27, 2023
Primary completion
Mar 26, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 26, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 26, 2024

Study contacts

Tzuyu Liu
Contact
tzuyu35@gmail.com
(02)24329292 ext. 2720

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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