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A Virtual Peer Agent for Counseling Adolescents With Stressful Life Events
Sponsor: Sun Yat-sen University
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.
Official title: Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Peer Agent for Psychological Counseling of Adolescents With Stressful Life Events : A Feasibility Study
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
14 Years - 25 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2025-12-05
Completion Date
2026-01-30
Last Updated
2025-12-26
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
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.