Effectiveness of the Universal Prevention Program Super Skills for Life in Schools

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Self Esteem; Depressive Symptoms; Anxiety Symptoms; Perfectionism; Emotion Regulation; Social Skills; Negative Affect; Mood Disorders; Emotional Intelligence; Positive Affect

Treatments: Behavioral: Super Skills Schools

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06444581

CIACIF/2021/269 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a 12-session cognitive-behavioral transdiagnostic protocol for Spanish children aged 8 to 12 within an educational context, Super Skills for Life. The program, designed to enhance emotional management and social interaction skills, will be delivered in a group format and supplemented with multimedia materials. The study will compare outcomes between an intervention group and a wait-list control group.

Full description

A 2 x 4 factorial design will be employed, with the intervention condition (intervention or waiting list) as the intergroup factor and the evaluation phase (pretest, posttest, 6-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up) as the intragroup factor. Both parents and children will complete the same assessments at baseline, post-treatment, and follow-up stages. The researchers will analyze the changes in emotional and social variables from pre- to post-assessment in children who participate in the program.

Enrollment: 1,100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged 8 to 12 years.
• Be Spanish-speaking.
• Accepting informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Intellectual disability, behavioral symptoms or autistic spectrum symptoms whose severity prevented the continuation of treatment.
• Current psychological or pharmacological treatment for anxiety and/or depression.
• Not accepting or revoking informed consent to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,100 participants in 2 patient groups

Group experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Super Skills intervention group: multimedia material version The Super Skills program will be administered following the manual of the intervention by a trained therapist, as described in the section of intervention/ treatment and will be enriched with multimedia material that the implementer will project at various moments of the sessions. Super Skills Structured and manualized intervention with a manual for the therapist and a workbook for the children. The intervention will be administered by Super Skills-trained clinical psychologists. Sessions will take place once a week for twelve weeks, with each session lasting approximately fifty minutes. The program includes emotional education and social skills training. These contents are learned through playful exercises, activities, readings and role-playing. The intervention modality will be face-to-face.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Super Skills Schools

Group without any intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the wait-list group will receive no psychological intervention during the twelve-week duration of the Super Skills program. Families will be informed that children in this group will receive the intervention once the posttest is completed.