Learning for Hearts and Minds in Elementary School

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Social Emotional Learning

Treatments: Behavioral: SEELearning Training; Behavioral: Waiting list group of the intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06174467

ACM-Students-Intervention

Details and patient eligibility

About

ABSTRACT- Introduction: Skills such as recognizing and managing emotions, developing empathy, building cooperative relationships, solving problems effectively and obtaining communication skills have gained importance in several schools and this has been made possible by Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL). Robust studies in this area in Latin America are lacking, and what happens in the brain and in our general physiology, from trainings related to SEL, needs to be better understood. Objectives: To assess the effects of Learning for Hearts and Minds Training (TACM) on positive and negative affect, empathy and compassion, emotional expression, self-compassion, life satisfaction, sense of community in the classroom, academic goals, school performance, brain activity and heart rate variability in 4th and 5th year elementary school students. Methods: This is a randomized controlled trial in clusters with cross-over, in approximately 600 students. By the end of the first semester, one group of students will receive the TACM and the other will be a waiting control group. In the second semester, the latter will receive the TACM and the former will continue the TACM practices. The groups will be evaluated in 5 moments during the year. A classroom will be randomly assigned to undergo an assessment of brain activity and cardiac variability to assess their ability to regulate emotions. Students, parents and teachers will be drawn for a qualitative interview at the end of the academic semesters about the effects of TACM.

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students of selected public schools of Junidaí of the 4th and 5th grade of Brazilian elementary School

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

First group to receive the intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This cluster of classes of different scholls will be instructed in the social emotional and ethical learning training (SEELearning) and being tested trought questionaries.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SEELearning Training

Second group to receive the intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The cluster of classes of different scholls forming the second group, will not be instructed in the social emotional and ethical learning training (SEELearning) in the first semester, but will answer the questionaries during this period. Than, in next semester they will receive the Training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Waiting list group of the intervention