The Early Truancy Prevention Project

NCT ID: NCT01894464

Last Updated: 2016-03-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 20 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2015-07-31

Brief Summary

The Early Truancy Prevention Project is designed to prevent elementary school truancy through teacher-led interventions that are individualized to meet student needs.

Detailed Description

The Early Truancy Prevention Project is an innovative intervention program designed to prevent elementary school truancy and later school dropout. The intervention model emphasizes the important role of teachers as change agents to address early attendance problems and emerging truancy. Specifically, the goals of this pilot project are: 1) to facilitate positive, trusting, and collaborative home-school relations and to promote a positive teacher-child relationship; 2) to provide teachers with timely information about a student's attendance pattern; and 3) to train and supervise teachers in the implementation of individualized attendance interventions to improve student attendance and prevent emerging truancy among elementary school students. As this is a pilot study, another important goal is to obtain teacher and administrator feedback to improve and refine all aspects of the project.

Conditions

Excessive Absenteeism by Primary School Students

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Teacher led intervention

Teachers will conduct teacher-led interventions that are individualized for each student to prevent emerging truancy among elementary students.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Teacher led intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Control Group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Teacher led intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• all first and second grade teachers in 6 schools

Exclusion Criteria

• none

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

U.S. Department of Education

FED

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Duke University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Philip J Cook, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Duke University

Locations

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

A0207

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id