Effectiveness of Psychological Resilience Intervention in China: A Systematic Review

Objective To systematically review the psychological resilience intervention in China,so as to evaluate its effectiveness.Methods-Studies published as of October 2012 were searched in CBM,VIP,CNKI and WanFang Data.The randomized controlled trials(RCTs) and controlled before-and-after trials(CBAs) about psychological resilience intervention were included.Two reviewers independently performed screening,quality assessment and data extraction,and then reached a consensus after cross-check and discussion.Qualitative synthesis was adopted instead of meta-analysis for the existed significant deviations in outcomes of included studies.Results-A total of 8 studies including 3 RCTs and 5 CBAs were included for the analysis.All the studies referred to the objects of students,including 6 for college students,1 for secondary school students and 1 for left behind students in rural junior school.All 8 studies evaluated the effectiveness of group psychological guidance,1 of which also compared the outcomes of psychological lectures.All the included trials suggested that group psychological guidance and psychological lectures might significantly improve the psychological resilience of subjects.Conclusion-Current studies on psychological resilience intervention are limited,the measure has been taken seems relatively single,which mainly focuses on students and lacks of high-quality research design.It suggests take more diverse psychological resilience interventions for different population,and evaluate both short-term and long-term effectiveness by performing large sample,strictly designed and high-quality trials.