Promoting young childrens social and emotional competence and preventing conduct problems
ISRCTN | ISRCTN35476268 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN35476268 |
Secondary identifying numbers | 080534 |
- Submission date
- 31/07/2009
- Registration date
- 11/08/2009
- Last edited
- 20/03/2013
- Recruitment status
- No longer recruiting
- Overall study status
- Completed
- Condition category
- Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data
Plain English summary of protocol
Not provided at time of registration
Contact information
Dr Helen Baker-Henningham
Scientific
Scientific
Epidemiology Research Unit
University of the West Indies
Mona
Kingston
7
Jamaica
Study information
Study design | Cluster randomised controlled trial |
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Primary study design | Interventional |
Secondary study design | Randomised controlled trial |
Study setting(s) | Other |
Study type | Quality of life |
Participant information sheet | Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet |
Scientific title | Promoting young childrens social and emotional competence and preventing conduct problems: a cluster randomised controlled trial |
Study objectives | A school-based, universal preventative intervention for 3 - 6 year old children aimed at reducing conduct problems and promoting social and emotional competence will lead to improvements in: 1. The behaviour of children who are at high risk for developing conduct problems at home and at school 2. Teachers' practices in preventing and remediating children's conduct problems and promoting children's social and emotional competence 3. Parents' involvement in school |
Ethics approval(s) | University Hospital of the West Indies/University of the West Indies/Faculty of Medical Sciences Ethics Committee approved on the 16th April 2009 (ref: ECP 222, 2008/2009) |
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied | Conduct problems in children |
Intervention | The intervention is based on The Incredible Years Teacher Training Programme and will be delivered over the 2009/2010 academic year. The intervention will start in November 2009 and continue until May 2010. Teachers will attend monthly teacher training workshops throughout the intervention period and will be visited monthly in their classrooms. Teachers in the control schools receive no training but are provided with additional educational materials. |
Intervention type | Other |
Primary outcome measure | Child behaviour through direct observation at school at baseline (beginning of the school year) and at follow up (end of the school year). Observations will include event recording of child aggression and child friendship skills, scan sampling of child disruptive behaviour and ratings of children's conduct problems, activity level, engagement in learning activities and ability to follow classroom rules and expectations. |
Secondary outcome measures | 1. Child behaviour through teacher and parent report at baseline and follow up using The Eyberg and Sutter/Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventories and The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire 2. Child social skills (using the Preschool and Kindergarten Behaviour Scales: social skills scale) and child ADHD (using the Conners ADHD index) by teacher report at baseline and follow up 3. Teacher's positive and negative interactions with children at high risk for developing conduct problems measured through direct observation (event sampling) at baseline and follow up 4. Teachers classroom management practices at baseline and follow up measured through direct observation. These teacher observations include event sampling of teachers' use of positive and negative strategies and observer ratings of the teachers' behaviour and classroom atmosphere. 5. Parent involvement in school at follow up measured by parent report |
Overall study start date | 01/05/2009 |
Completion date | 31/07/2010 |
Eligibility
Participant type(s) | Patient |
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Age group | Child |
Lower age limit | 3 Years |
Upper age limit | 6 Years |
Sex | Both |
Target number of participants | 24 community preschools, 216 children |
Key inclusion criteria | Community preschools (catering to 3 - 6 year old children) will be included in the study if the school principal and all teachers are willing to participate and if the school: 1. Is situated in a defined disadvantaged, urban area of Kingston and St Andrew 2. Has 3 or 4 classes of children 3. Has a minimum of 20 children in each class Three children from each class will be selected for evaluation of outcomes. Teachers in each class will rate the behaviour of all children in their class on 10 questions for conduct problems using age-appropriate items from the ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders: Diagnostic criteria for research. Children with the highest scores will be included in the evaluation. |
Key exclusion criteria | All community preschools who meet the inclusion criteria are eligible for participation. Children will be excluded if: 1. They have an attendance rate of less than 70% 2. They have an identified disability 3. They live in a children's home or place of safety |
Date of first enrolment | 01/05/2009 |
Date of final enrolment | 31/07/2010 |
Locations
Countries of recruitment
- Jamaica
Study participating centre
Epidemiology Research Unit
Kingston
7
Jamaica
7
Jamaica
Sponsor information
University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
University/education
University/education
c/o Professor Susan Walker
Epidemiology Research Unit
Tropical Medicine Research Institute
Mona
Kingston
7
Jamaica
Website | http://mona.uwi.edu/ |
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https://ror.org/03fkc8c64 |
Funders
Funder type
Charity
The Wellcome Trust (UK) (ref: 080534)
No information available
Results and Publications
Intention to publish date | |
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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
IPD sharing plan summary | Not provided at time of registration |
Publication and dissemination plan | Not provided at time of registration |
IPD sharing plan |
Study outputs
Output type | Details | Date created | Date added | Peer reviewed? | Patient-facing? |
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Results article | results | 01/08/2012 | Yes | No |