Assessment of a Drama Workshop Program for Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents

McGill University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Learning Disabilities

Treatments: Other: Theatre workshops; Other: Group tutoring program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01426451

CIHR/IRSC-229984

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a drama workshop program for immigrant and refugee youth is effective in reducing impairment in high school students presenting learning difficulties.

Enrollment: 464 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All students who are assigned to special classes based on behavioural or learning problems in grades 7-10 in the participating schools will participate in the program and be included in the study if they and their parents consent to in the research.

Exclusion criteria

• More severe cases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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464 participants in 3 patient groups

Theatre intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The theatre expression workshops will run for 12 weeks, with one 75-minute workshop per week. They will be incorporated into the regular class timetable and will be run by the two members of the intervention team who have training in theatre and psychology, and the homeroom teacher, whose level of direct involvement will increase gradually as he or she becomes familiar with the workshops.

Treatment:

Other: Theatre workshops

Group tutoring intervention

Experimental group

Description:

In each classroom assigned to the tutorship intervention, two academic resource assistants will provide weekly in-class support to students for the same length of time than the drama workshop (75 minutes weekly). Individualized student objectives on reading fluency and math will be implemented (one in math and one in reading per student).

Treatment:

Other: Group tutoring program

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Classes not participating neither in drama workshops nor in group tutoring activities will fill out a questionnaire as a basis for comparison.