An Exploratory Trial of a Health Education Programme Based on the Social and Emotional Competence in Children (CRECES)

University of Navarra

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior; Emotional Intelligence

Treatments: Behavioral: CRECES programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02975544

70801

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether an intervention based on the social and emotional competence development improves the healthy lifestyles adoption in young children.

Full description

This study has designed, implemented and evaluated an intervention to promote healthy lifestyles in children addressing the development of the social and emotional competence. This research followed the first three stages of the Medical Research Council framework for complex interventions: the theoretical, modeling phase and the exploratory trial. A randomised control trial with 37 children (5 y 6 years old) was conducted at the exploratory trial. The first unit was implemented in 8 sessions. A multi-method and multi-informant approach was used to assess the preliminary efficacy, acceptability and feasibility of the programme.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged 5 and 6 enrolled in a public school in the north of Spain

Exclusion criteria

• Children with severe cognitive or language special needs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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37 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Received CRECES programme during 5 weeks as part of the extracurricular plan

Treatment:

Behavioral: CRECES programme

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Continued with their habitual school routine