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.
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Level of Psychological Symptoms
Timeframe: Baseline [week 0], Week 1 of intervention, Week 2 of intervention, Week 3 of intervention, Week 4 of intervention