Yhteispeli - Effectiveness Study on Promoting Childrens' Socio-emotional Skills in School

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Status: Completed

Conditions: Children's Socio-emotional Skills and Psychiatric Symptoms

Treatments: Other: Two theoretical lectures; Other: Yhteispeli, whole school programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02178332

THL/455/6.00.00/2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this cluster randomised trial is to investigate whether the Yhteispeli whole school programme is effective in improving children's socio-emotional skills and mental health and socio-emotional skills.

All Finnish elementary schools and their classes in 1-3 grades were invited to participate in the study. The schools were randomly allocated to receive either Yhteispeli programme or two lectures

Enrollment: 4,400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children from volunteering elementary schools and classes (grades 1 to 3) whose parents gave consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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4,400 participants in 2 patient groups

Yhteispeli, whole school programme

Experimental group

Description:

Yhteispeli-programme aims to support children's socio-emotional skills and well being at schools. Schools receive the Yhteispeli manual and teachers receive 3 and head masters 2 lecture days about use of Yhteispeli methods including group discussions and exercises. In addition every school is visited 4 times to support the use of Yhteispeli methods. (Lectures for the head masters March 2013 - November 2013, teachers August 2013 - January 2014)

Treatment:

Other: Yhteispeli, whole school programme

Two theoretical lectures

Active Comparator group

Description:

Teachers receive two theoretical lectures on development of children's socio-emotional skills (3 hours in November 2013 and 3 hours in March 2014 ).

Treatment:

Other: Two theoretical lectures