Clinical trials: Prosocial Behavior
Sleep Restriction
Effects of Nap Restriction on Preschoolers' Empathy, Prosocial Behaviors and Executive Function
Cross-sectional evidences suggest a relationship between early childhood sleep and cognitive as well as socio-emotional functions. However, the casual relation has not been fully revealed.
- Trial name
- NCT06025669
- Testing
- Nap restriction
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Aggression, Adolescence
Wise Intervention for Reducing Aggressive Behaviors and Promoting Prosocial Behaviors Toward LGB-TNB Individuals
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a wise Intervention to reduce aggressive behaviors and promote prosocial behaviors toward LGB-TNB individuals among Spanish adolescents.
- Trial name
- LGB-TNB (NCT07212283)
- Testing
- Wise Intervention LGB-TNB, Values alignment wise intervention
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Deusto
Social Behaviour
Smartphone-based Nature Noticing Intervention
We used a mixed-methods approach involving a RCT study followed by focus group discussions to obtain a more integrative understanding of the effects of a 10-week nature-noticing intervention.
- Trial name
- NCT07720947
- Testing
- Nature-noticing intervention
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 127 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Social Behavior
Metta Meditation Training on Prosocial Behavior
The purpose of the study is to look at the impact of a metta meditation training on prosocial behavior and socio-affective brain responses.
- Trial name
- NCT03894930
- Testing
- Metta meditation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 67 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Georgetown University
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Parent Training and Emotion Coaching for Children With Limited Prosocial Emotions
The proposed research will focus on the development of a brief emotion-coaching (EC) parenting program (which directly targets child emotion awareness/recognition and affective empathy), that will be combined with a…
- Trial name
- HNC-EC (NCT02409992)
- Testing
- Parent Training plus Emotion Coaching, Parent Training only
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 43 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Emotional Distress, Prosocial Behavior
Intervention to Prevent Behavioral Health Symptoms Among Pandemic Affected Children
Racial and ethnic minority children who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities are disproportionately impacted by pandemic and climate-induced disasters.
- Conditions
- Emotional Distress, Prosocial Behavior, Pandemic, COVID-19, Coping Skills
- Trial name
- NCT05639465
- Testing
- JoH-C19, Switch off Get Active
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sleep Quality, Chronotype
Sleep, Chronotype, and Prosocial Allocation Decisions
This observational behavioural study examines whether individual differences in sleep quality, sleep timing, and chronotype are associated with prosocial allocation decisions in adults.
- Conditions
- Sleep Quality, Chronotype, Prosocial Decision-Making, Circadian Timing
- Trial name
- SCPAD (NCT07697092)
- Testing
- Sleep, Circadian, and Prosocial Allocation Assessment
- Where
- 2 sites in Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 128 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Autism or Autistic Traits, Healthy
Development of Prosocial Behaviors and Related Brain Network in Infants of High and Low Risk of ASD
The goal of this observational study is to compare the developmental trajectories of prosocial behaviors and functional network connections in infants and toddlers at high and low risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
- Trial name
- NCT06329245
- Testing
- Do not take any interventions
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Fudan University
Youth
A VR Intervention for Promoting Prosocial Behavior and Well-being in Youth
The objective of the present project is to develop a gamified prosocial VR intervention for youth transitioning from secondary to tertiary education, and to test the effectiveness of the gamified prosocial VR intervention for…
- Trial name
- NCT06454851
- Testing
- Prosocial VR intervention, No intervention
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Depressive Disorder, Major, Bipolar Disorder
Characterization of the Prosocial and Prosexual Effects of GHB
The purpose of this study is to determine whether gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) has prosocial and prosexual effects in healthy male participants, and to characterize these putative effects via behavioral tests, functional magnetic…
- Conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Major, Bipolar Disorder, Autistic Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT02342366
- Testing
- GHB 35 mg/kg p.o., GHB 20 mg/kg p.o.
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 19 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Zurich
Happiness, Anxiety
Prosocial Behavior Can Safeguard Mental Health and Foster Emotional Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdown measures have made mental health a pressing public health concern. Acts that focus on benefiting others-known as prosocial behaviors-offer one promising intervention that is…
- Conditions
- Happiness, Anxiety, Depression, Morality
- Trial name
- NCT04517006
- Testing
- Self-focused acts, Prosocial acts
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,328 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto
Aggression, Prosocial Behavior
Media Impact on Preschool Behavior
This study tests the hypothesis that modifying the media diet of preschool children so that they watch more prosocial programming and less violent programming will result in decreased aggression and increased prosocial behavior.
- Trial name
- NCT01459835
- Testing
- media diet, nutritional intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Seattle Children's Hospital
Prosocial Behavior, Physical Literacy
The Cultivation of College Students' Social Behavior in Public Physical Education Courses in Colleges and Universities: A Study Based on the Experiential Learning Model
This study adopts a quasi-experimental design and plans to recruit 94 university students from a university in Jiangsu Province, randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group.
- Trial name
- NCT07402304
- Testing
- experiential learning model, Regular Tennis Course
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 94 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Han Xu
Sedentary Lifestyle
Prosocial Exercise: Does Exercising for Charity Result in Greater Well-Being and Physical Activity?
The purpose of this study is to determine whether prosocial exercise (exercising for the benefit of others) results in greater well-being and physical activity when compared to personal exercise (exercising without attempting to…
- Trial name
- NCT02573454
- Testing
- App assignment
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 117 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Prosocial Behavior, Forgiveness
From the Heart: Comparing the Effects of Spiritual and Secular Meditation on Psychophysiology, Cognition, Mental Health, and Social Functioning in Healthy Adults
The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the effects of Christian and Islamic heart-centred spiritual meditation to mindfulness meditation and waitlist control conditions, respectively, in healthy adults.
- Conditions
- Prosocial Behavior, Forgiveness, Empathy, Pain
- Trial name
- NCT06136676
- Testing
- Arm 1 - Heart-Centred Spiritual Meditation: Christian contemplation, Arm 1 - Heart-Centred Spiritual Meditation: Islamic contemplation, Arm 2 - Action Control: Mindfulness Meditation
- Where
- 2 sites in India
- Volunteers
- 288 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Coventry University
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Healthy
Differences in Prosocial Behaviors and Related Brain Networks in Children With Autism and Typical Development
The goal of this observational study is to compare the brain functional network between children with autism and typical development, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electroencephalogram/event-related potentials(EEG/ERPs)…
- Trial name
- NCT06908174
- Testing
- ADOS-2
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Fudan University
Social Emotional Learning
Learning for Hearts and Minds in Elementary School
ABSTRACT- Introduction: Skills such as recognizing and managing emotions, developing empathy, building cooperative relationships, solving problems effectively and obtaining communication skills have gained importance in several…
- Trial name
- NCT06174467
- Testing
- SEELearning Training, Waiting list group of the intervention
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Effort Based Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior
Effort and Antidepressant Study Test
The aim of this study is to investigate the behavioural effects and neural correlates of increasing serotonin levels in healthy volunteers, through a 7-day course of the SSRI escitalopram, on an effort-based decision-making task…
- Conditions
- Effort Based Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior, Apathy
- Trial name
- EAST (NCT06696482)
- Testing
- Escitalopram 10mg
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Aging
Oxytocin's Effect on Socioemotional Aging
This study will investigate the extent to which intranasal oxytocin affects changes in social decision making and evaluations of others.
- Trial name
- NCT01823146
- Testing
- Oxytocin spray
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 106 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Mental Health Issue
A Mindfulness-based Intervention to Reduce Stress and Improve Prosocial Skills for Health-care Students
We aim to study the clinical immediate and long-term efficacy of a web-delivered MBCT-L protocol targeting bachelor and master health-care students in Geneva, as well as to study the correlations of clinical, neuroimaging and…
- Trial name
- e-SMILE (NCT07110792)
- Testing
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L)
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 161 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Geneva, Switzerland