Testing the Effects of the Caregiver Interaction Profile Training on the Interactive Skills of Daycare Providers (CDP)

University of Copenhagen

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Interactive Skills Daycare Providers; Healthy; Emotion Regulation; Language Development

Treatments: Behavioral: Caregiver Interaction Profile (CIP) training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05654116

514-0217/21-2000

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the Caregiver Interaction Profile (CIP) training program (Helmerhorst et al., 2017) promoting the relational quality between professional caregivers and children in daycare. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the CIP training program, compared to no training, improve the relational quality between daycare providers and children in daycare?
• Does the CIP training program, compared to no training, foster children's social, emotional, and language development? Daycare providers assigned to the "training group" will participate in the CIP training program, which uses video-recorded interactions between the daycare providers and children in daycare to give feedback on the relational quality as observed in the videos. Daycare providers assigned to the "waiting list control group" will initially not take part in the training program but will receive the training after the study is finished. All daycare providers' daily interactions with the children in daycare will be filmed before and after the training in order to see if there has been a change in relational quality for the daycare providers in the training group (compared to the control group). Daycare providers in the training and control groups will also fill out questionnaires about the social, emotional, and language development of the children in their care.

Researchers will compare daycare providers (and the children in their care) in the "training group" to daycare providers (and the children in their care) in the "control group" to see if the relational quality in the training group improves more than that in the control group as a result of the CIP training, and how that impacts the social, emotional, and language development of children.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• currently working as a professional daycare provider in a daycare center

Exclusion criteria

• temporary staff in daycare on short-term contracts

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

CIP training group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to the CIP training group will receive either an individual 5-week CIP training or a pairwise 6-week CIP training, both with weekly sessions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Caregiver Interaction Profile (CIP) training

Waiting-list control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants assigned to the waiting-list control group will receive no intervention while data collection is ongoing; after data collection is finished they will also receive the CIP training.