Promoting young childrens social and emotional competence and preventing conduct problems

ISRCTN	ISRCTN35476268
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN35476268
Protocol serial number	080534
Sponsor	University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
Funder	The Wellcome Trust (UK) (ref: 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

Epidemiology Research Unit
University of the West Indies
Mona
Kingston
7
Jamaica

Study information

Primary study design	Interventional
Study design	Cluster randomised controlled trial
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study type	Participant 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(s)	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.
Key secondary outcome measure(s)	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
Completion date	31/07/2010

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Child
Lower age limit	3 Years
Upper age limit	6 Years
Sex	All
Target sample size at registration	216
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

Results and Publications

Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	results	01/08/2012		Yes	No
Participant information sheet	Participant information sheet	11/11/2025	11/11/2025	No	Yes

Promoting young childrens social and emotional competence and preventing conduct problems