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2024-10-26 @ 1:12 PM
Study NCT ID:
NCT03985124
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2020-11-06
First Post:
2019-03-19
Brief Title:
Tuning in to Kids in Norwegian FUS Kindergartens
Sponsor:
University of Oslo
Organization:
University of Oslo
Study Overview
Official Title:
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Tuning in to Kids in Norwegian FUS Kindergartens
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2020-11
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
TIK-FUS
Brief Summary:
The proposed project will aim to evaluate the impact of the Tuning in to Kids program for teachers using a randomised controlled research design with 48 kindergartens across Norway Oslo Trondheim and Bergen Kindergartens will be randomised into intervention or 12-month wait list control Measures will be given to kindergarten leaders teachers parents and in a subset of kindergartens children Intervention kindergartens will receive training in how to be more emotion coaching as well as helping teachers understand and manage their own emotions Primary outcomes are teachers responsiveness to childrens emotions and the overall classroom functioningclimate Secondary outcomes are impacts on kindergarten functioning staff absencesturn over parents reports of childrens emotional behavioural and social functioning
Detailed Description:
The research questions will be does Tuning in to Kids TIK for teachers
1 lead to improved teacher meta-emotion philosophy beliefs about emotions teacher emotion awarenessregulation and wellbeing
2 lead to improved teacher emotion socialisation decreased emotion dismissiveness and increased emotion coaching and emotional responsiveness
3 lead to improvements in the kindergarten social and emotional climate and improved organisational functioning of the kindergarten
4 lead to improved child emotion vocabulary and social emotional behavioural functioning
5 provide a cost-effective method for improving the functioning of the FUS kindergartens
TIK for Teachers will aim to alter the teacher and kindergarten functioning which in turn is expected to impact childrens emotional competence emotion vocabularyregulation thereby impacting wider aspects of child functioning behaviour social functioning In this trial of Tuning in to Kids in Norwegian FUS kindergartens a cluster randomised design will be used Forty-eight kindergartens consisting of 880 teachers will be randomised into intervention or 12-month wait-list control All kindergartens intervention and control will complete measures at baseline and 10-month follow-up in August 2019 and then June 2020 Once baseline measures have been collected from all kindergartens intervention and control those in the intervention condition will receive the TIK intervention October through to March Twelve-month follow up measures will be collected in June 2020 and will be the same measures collected at baseline outlined below as well as data on intervention implementation attendance dosage feasibility acceptability Control kindergartens will receive the same measures at the same times as the intervention kindergartens and will receive the intervention after the 12-month waiting period in autumn 2020
Tuning in to Kids for Teachers - TIK-T Intervention
This intervention is professional training for teacherschildcare workers Key components include
Kindergarten leadersprincipals and all school workers will receive an initial three hour briefing on the intervention in March 2019
Kindergarten leaderslead pedagogue will attend a two-day 14 hours professional training in TIK to learn to use emotion coaching with children in December 2019 This will give them skills to support teachers in their application of the ideas in their interactions with children
Childcare workerskindergarten teachers will attend a full day training seven hours in how to use emotion coaching and in skills to understand and regulate their emotions January 2020
The Kindergarten leaderseducation or pedagogue will deliver supervision sessions to assist teachers in implementation of the TIK ideas This will be two x three hour sessions at monthly intervals February March 2020
Structured manuals will be used for intervention delivery and fidelity checklists to ensure adherence to the intervention
Support materials will be provided in online formatmanuals for all teachers
Measures
a structured validated observation measure of classroom social-emotional environment
teacher responses on questionnaires about their meta-emotion philosophy beliefs about emotions emotion awarenessregulation emotion socialisation emotion dismissiveness and emotion coaching emotion wellbeingmental health and perceptions of the functioning of the kindergartenschool
kindergarten leaders responses on questionnaires about the kindergarten environment
kindergarten organisational data on teacher absences staff turnover etc to measure overall organisational functioning
parents will complete an online questionnaire about their childs emotional language socialemotionalbehavioural functioning and their experience of supportengagement with the kindergarten The will also complete a brief measure on their emotion socialization
a small number of children for whom parental consent is given in eight kindergartens will participate in a direct assessment at the kindergarten of the childs emotion knowledge
costs of intervention delivery along with expected financial costsbenefits of improved organisational functioning such as costs of staff absences re-hiring organisational problems
Intervention implementation information will be collected from teacherskindergarten leaders about intervention acceptability feasibility and dosageattendance
1 lead to improved teacher meta-emotion philosophy beliefs about emotions teacher emotion awarenessregulation and wellbeing
2 lead to improved teacher emotion socialisation decreased emotion dismissiveness and increased emotion coaching and emotional responsiveness
3 lead to improvements in the kindergarten social and emotional climate and improved organisational functioning of the kindergarten
4 lead to improved child emotion vocabulary and social emotional behavioural functioning
5 provide a cost-effective method for improving the functioning of the FUS kindergartens
TIK for Teachers will aim to alter the teacher and kindergarten functioning which in turn is expected to impact childrens emotional competence emotion vocabularyregulation thereby impacting wider aspects of child functioning behaviour social functioning In this trial of Tuning in to Kids in Norwegian FUS kindergartens a cluster randomised design will be used Forty-eight kindergartens consisting of 880 teachers will be randomised into intervention or 12-month wait-list control All kindergartens intervention and control will complete measures at baseline and 10-month follow-up in August 2019 and then June 2020 Once baseline measures have been collected from all kindergartens intervention and control those in the intervention condition will receive the TIK intervention October through to March Twelve-month follow up measures will be collected in June 2020 and will be the same measures collected at baseline outlined below as well as data on intervention implementation attendance dosage feasibility acceptability Control kindergartens will receive the same measures at the same times as the intervention kindergartens and will receive the intervention after the 12-month waiting period in autumn 2020
Tuning in to Kids for Teachers - TIK-T Intervention
This intervention is professional training for teacherschildcare workers Key components include
Kindergarten leadersprincipals and all school workers will receive an initial three hour briefing on the intervention in March 2019
Kindergarten leaderslead pedagogue will attend a two-day 14 hours professional training in TIK to learn to use emotion coaching with children in December 2019 This will give them skills to support teachers in their application of the ideas in their interactions with children
Childcare workerskindergarten teachers will attend a full day training seven hours in how to use emotion coaching and in skills to understand and regulate their emotions January 2020
The Kindergarten leaderseducation or pedagogue will deliver supervision sessions to assist teachers in implementation of the TIK ideas This will be two x three hour sessions at monthly intervals February March 2020
Structured manuals will be used for intervention delivery and fidelity checklists to ensure adherence to the intervention
Support materials will be provided in online formatmanuals for all teachers
Measures
a structured validated observation measure of classroom social-emotional environment
teacher responses on questionnaires about their meta-emotion philosophy beliefs about emotions emotion awarenessregulation emotion socialisation emotion dismissiveness and emotion coaching emotion wellbeingmental health and perceptions of the functioning of the kindergartenschool
kindergarten leaders responses on questionnaires about the kindergarten environment
kindergarten organisational data on teacher absences staff turnover etc to measure overall organisational functioning
parents will complete an online questionnaire about their childs emotional language socialemotionalbehavioural functioning and their experience of supportengagement with the kindergarten The will also complete a brief measure on their emotion socialization
a small number of children for whom parental consent is given in eight kindergartens will participate in a direct assessment at the kindergarten of the childs emotion knowledge
costs of intervention delivery along with expected financial costsbenefits of improved organisational functioning such as costs of staff absences re-hiring organisational problems
Intervention implementation information will be collected from teacherskindergarten leaders about intervention acceptability feasibility and dosageattendance
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
False
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None