Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health

Oregon Social Learning Center

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Externalizing Behavior; Social Emotional Competence; Parenting Behavior; Internalizing Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06908330

R34MH138714 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School (SSTRS) Program can help children entering kindergarten and their families. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1) Do children who participate in SSTRS have better social-emotional skills and mental health? and 2) Do parents who participate in SSTRS have more positive parenting skills and involvement in their children's learning?

Researchers will compare the SSTRS Program to the regular kindergarten curriculum without SSTRS to see if being in SSTRS helps children to have better mental health and parents to have better parenting skills.

Kindergarteners will have daily SSTRS lessons in their kindergarten classes for 8 weeks.

Their parents will watch videos and attend group meetings with other parents and answer questions about their own and their children's behaviors and mental health

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• child entering kindergarten in school that is participiating in the study

Exclusion criteria

• being in a classroom in which the teacher or EA was previously trained in another closely-related treatment protocol

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

SSTRS group

Experimental group

Description:

These participants will participate in the SSTRS intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program

Services as Usual

No Intervention group

Description:

These participants will receive kindergarten programming as usual.