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Registration number
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ACTRN12626001290381p
Ethics application status
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Submitted, not yet approved
Date submitted
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29/09/2026
Date registered
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28/10/2026
Date last updated
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28/10/2026
Date data sharing statement initially provided
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28/10/2026
Type of registration
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Prospectively registered

Titles & IDs
Public title
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based workshops to build resilience in care economy students in Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Scientific title
Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in building resilience for VET students
Additional trial identifiers [1] 318551 0
‘Nil known
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
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Health condition
Health condition(s) studied:
resilience 343745 0
Condition category
Condition code
Mental Health 339863 339863 0 0
Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of the intervention or exposure
- The intervention is based on six skills from ACT across 4 sessions held weekly exploring the following core skills; Cognitive defusion, acceptance, committed action, values, contact with the present moment and self as context. The materials used in the intervention will be a power point presentation describing the 6 skills with some experiential mindfulness based practices and handouts for practice at home.
- The workshop will be delivered to a small group over four weekly sessions of approximately one hour each. Sessions will include brief information, practical activities, reflection exercises and discussions about applying ACT-based skills to study, placement, personal wellbeing and future care-related work.
- The intervention will be delivered by 2 counsellors from the Swinburne Health Service with 5+ years' experience and training in ACT. The counsellors have previously facilitated a 4-week ACT based group program to students as part of the preventative health promotion activities in their roles.
- The intervention will be delivered face to face at Swinburne campuses with 5-6 VET students across each workshop cohort. Total 20-25 students expected to engage and attend the workshops throughout the duration of the project.
- The 4-week sessions will be conducted once a week and students will only attend each session once.
- The intervention will occur at Swinburne campus locations across Croydon, Wantirna and Hawthorn campuses.
Intervention code [1] 335457 0
Behaviour
Description of the comparator or control
No control group
Control group
Uncontrolled

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 347046 0
Resilience
Timepoint [1] 347046 0
baseline; before the first session of the intervention participants will be asked to fill out the CD-RISC questionnaire Follow up after treatment: At the end of the last session in week 4 of the session the participants will be asked to fill the questionnaire
Secondary outcome [1] 469199 0
Qualitative feedback on effectiveness of workshop for resilience
Timepoint [1] 469199 0
To be administered before the commencement of ACT workshops to establish pre-intervention feedback To be administered at the end of the 4 week ACT workshop series to establish post-intervention feedback on effectiveness of the workshop

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
Students aged 18+ currently enrolled in VET at Swinburne University of Technology in a course within the department of Health and Community Services (any level such as cert 1-4 or diploma).
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Healthy volunteers
No
Key exclusion criteria
- Acute suicide risk or severe distress preventing safe participation
- Inability to provide free and informed consent independently

Study design
Purpose of the study
Educational / counselling / training
Allocation to intervention
Non-randomised trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Single group
Other design features
Phase
Not Applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Efficacy
Statistical methods / analysis
The current study is a single group pre-test post-test design to measure the efficacy of ACT based workshops on resilience levels of students in an educational context. To conduct an analysis of the mean scores on the CD-RISC 25 before and after the intervention a paired sample t-test will be run. A sample size of 25-30 participants was decided to obtain significant results for the t-test analysis.

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Not yet recruiting
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
1/11/2026
Actual
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
1/11/2027
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
Sample size
Target
30
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
VIC

Funding & Sponsors
Funding source category [1] 323133 0
University
Name [1] 323133 0
Sakshi Kaushal, Swinburne University of Technology
Country [1] 323133 0
Australia
Funding source category [2] 323135 0
University
Name [2] 323135 0
Vidya Yeleswarapu, Swinburne University of Technology
Country [2] 323135 0
Australia
Primary sponsor type
University
Name
Sakshi Kaushal, Swinburne University of Technology
Address
Country
Australia
Secondary sponsor category [1] 326089 0
University
Name [1] 326089 0
Vidya Yeleswarapu, Swinburne University of Technology
Address [1] 326089 0
Country [1] 326089 0
Australia

Ethics approval
Ethics application status
Submitted, not yet approved
Ethics committee name [1] 321529 0
Swinburne University of Technology Human Research Ethics Committee
Ethics committee address [1] 321529 0
Ethics committee country [1] 321529 0
Australia
Date submitted for ethics approval [1] 321529 0
26/06/2026
Approval date [1] 321529 0
Ethics approval number [1] 321529 0

Summary
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Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 153998 0
Ms Sakshi Kaushal
Address 153998 0
Swinburne University of Technology, 35 Wakefield St, Hawthorn, VIC 3122
Country 153998 0
Australia
Phone 153998 0
+61 092148483
Fax 153998 0
Email 153998 0
[email protected]
Contact person for public queries
Name 153999 0
Sakshi Kaushal
Address 153999 0
Swinburne University of Technology, 35 Wakefield St, Hawthorn, VIC 3122
Country 153999 0
Australia
Phone 153999 0
+61 092148483
Fax 153999 0
Email 153999 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries
Name 154000 0
Sakshi Kaushal
Address 154000 0
Swinburne University of Technology, 35 Wakefield St, Hawthorn, VIC 3122
Country 154000 0
Australia
Phone 154000 0
+61 092148483
Fax 154000 0
Email 154000 0
[email protected]

Data sharing statement
Will the study consider sharing individual participant data?
No
No IPD sharing reason/comment: All individual data will be de-identified to protect the privacy of the participants. Only de-identified group results will be published.



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