Norwegian Tuning in to Kids Effectivity Study (N-TIK)

University of Oslo

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Emotional Intelligence

Treatments: Behavioral: Tuning in to Kids

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04651465

002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current Randomised Controlled Trial study delivers and evaluate an evidence-based prevention program from Australia (Tuning in to Kids: TIK) to parent of preschool children. Reports from parents and preschool teachers are used to determine whether the program leads to universal benefits of improved wellbeing and reduced mental health difficulties for children and parents.

Full description

The study recruits approximately 250 parents of preschool children through local kindergartens to evaluate the N-TIK program as a universal and selective prevention program. The study will use a cluster randomized controlled design and comparing an intervention with a wait-list control sample. Baseline measurement (Time 1) are gathered from parents, children and teachers and include measurement of parenting, parent functioning, child emotion competence, child behavior and child kindergarten adjustment. Following baseline assessment families is allocated into Intervention or Wait-list conditions. Intervention parents attend a 6-session group parenting program where they learn to emotion coach their children and regulate their own emotions. These groups are facilitated by selected research team facilitators. Post-program, Intervention parents complete program evaluation measures (Time 2) to provide program feedback. At 12-month follow-up (Time 3) baseline assessments are repeated for Intervention and Wait-list participants with preschool teachers reporting on children's adjustment. Wait-list parents are then offered the N-TIK program delivered by community practitioners who have been trained by the project team in the intervention and have previously co-facilitated groups alongside the research group facilitators. This ensures the program can be used beyond just the research study building sustainability of the preventive intervention in the municipalities

Enrollment: 431 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent of a preschool child aged 4-5 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Under the age of 18
• Not able to read and write in Norwegian

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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431 participants in 2 patient groups

Tuning in to Kids parenting program

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention groups receive the Tuning in to Kids parenting program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tuning in to Kids

Business as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

control groups have "business as usual", and then get offered the intervention program after one year follow-up assessment.