Evaluating the Efficacy of A Conversational Agent's Impact on Self-Efficacy and Psychological Distress Following Injury: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial - Trial ANZCTR12623000999639

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Primary Outcome

Change in Self-Efficacy as assessed by the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE);; Change in the reported frequency of use of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies assessed by the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Quesionnaire Short Form (CERQ-SF)

Summary

This study aims to assess whether a digital conversational agent can be used to effectively deliver a low intensity emotion regulation intervention to people who have sustained a minor to moderate injury in a motor vehicle accident. This is a cohort of people who are often under stress. The intervention has been designed with input from clinical psychology and computer science. The intervention encourages people to reflect on the current way they manage negative emotions and provides information and examples of evidence based adaptive emotion regulation strategies that have been identified as being critical for effective coping. The emotion regulation strategies included in the program include positive refocusing, reappraisal, acceptance, planning and problem solving and putting things into perspective. It is anticipated that completing this intervention will assist participants to learn strategies to assist them to regulate emotions which will in turn increase their confidence that they can cope at this challenging time. It is also anticipated that the program will assist in reducing participant's reported levels of distress.

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