Teacher Child Interaction Training (TCIT): Randomized Control Trial

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior, Child

Treatments: Behavioral: TCIT; Behavioral: Booster

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04000230

20170372

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is being conducted to evaluate the effects of TCIT on child development, child behavior, and teacher use of skills in the classroom.

Enrollment: 622 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12+ months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• UMTCIT will target classrooms of children ages 1-5 enrolled in four participating B-2 Early Education Programs in Miami-Dade County: Debbie School, Easterseals South Florida, Arc of South Florida, and Linda Ray Intervention Center. Participants will also include school staff (teachers, teaching assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech/language pathologists) and students.

Exclusion criteria

• Children will be excluded from the study if they are 6 years of age or older or younger than 12 months of age at the start of each wave of treatment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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622 participants in 2 patient groups

TCIT

Experimental group

Description:

Teachers in the intervention group receive TCIT in the first half of the school year and booster coaching is provided throughout the second half of the school year as the Waitlist Control group is trained.

Treatment:

Behavioral: TCIT

Behavioral: Booster

Waitlist Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Waitlist Control teachers do not receive any intervention for the first half of the school year. They then receive the same TCIT training as the intervention group in the second half of the school year.

Treatment:

Behavioral: TCIT