The Effectiveness of a Dutch Prevention Program on Social-emotional Skills and Juvenile Delinquency in Children

Marit van de Mheen

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: At Risk for Criminal Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Kapot Sterk (translate as Incredibly Strong)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07147738

1434.201.001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the prevention program Kapot Sterk is effective.

Full description

Given the growing concerns about youth's involvement in criminal behavior, there is a strong need for effective interventions to prevent it. However, knowledge about the effectiveness of prevention programs for juveniles is currently lacking. Incredibly Strong (translate as Kapot Sterk) is a prevention program designed to improve self-esteem, self-control, and resistance to peer pressure among pupils in elementary schools. By enhancing these social-emotional skills, the program ultimately aims to reduce youths' vulnerability to recruitment and involvement in criminal activities. The effects of Incredibly Strong on juvenile delinquency and other life domains are investigated, using a randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Enrollment: 220 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Every pupil who meets the inclusion criteria for the intervention program can participate in the study. The program is for pupils in their last or second-to-last year of elementary school.

• Participants are 10-13 years old.
• Participants attend school.

Exclusion criteria

- Participants are younger than 10 years old or older than 13 years old.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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220 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

This group will participate in the program Kapot Sterk.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Kapot Sterk (translate as Incredibly Strong)

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will not participate in the program. They will receive the program afterwards, once data collection is finished.