Norwegian Tuning in to Kids Effectivity Study

NCT ID: NCT04651465

Last Updated: 2022-11-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 431 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-02-07
• Study Completion Date: 2027-12-31

Brief Summary

The current Randomised Controlled Trial study delivers and evaluate an evidence-based prevention program from Australia (Tuning in to Kids: TIK) to parent of preschool children. Reports from parents and preschool teachers are used to determine whether the program leads to universal benefits of improved wellbeing and reduced mental health difficulties for children and parents.

Detailed Description

The study recruits approximately 250 parents of preschool children through local kindergartens to evaluate the N-TIK program as a universal and selective prevention program. The study will use a cluster randomized controlled design and comparing an intervention with a wait-list control sample. Baseline measurement (Time 1) are gathered from parents, children and teachers and include measurement of parenting, parent functioning, child emotion competence, child behavior and child kindergarten adjustment. Following baseline assessment families is allocated into Intervention or Wait-list conditions. Intervention parents attend a 6-session group parenting program where they learn to emotion coach their children and regulate their own emotions. These groups are facilitated by selected research team facilitators. Post-program, Intervention parents complete program evaluation measures (Time 2) to provide program feedback. At 12-month follow-up (Time 3) baseline assessments are repeated for Intervention and Wait-list participants with preschool teachers reporting on children's adjustment. Wait-list parents are then offered the N-TIK program delivered by community practitioners who have been trained by the project team in the intervention and have previously co-facilitated groups alongside the research group facilitators. This ensures the program can be used beyond just the research study building sustainability of the preventive intervention in the municipalities

Conditions

Emotional Intelligence

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Tuning in to Kids parenting program

Intervention groups receive the Tuning in to Kids parenting program

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Tuning in to Kids

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

A parenting program that includes 6 group supervisions of parents, where emotion coaching and promotion of kids emotional competence are main focus.

Business as usual

control groups have "business as usual", and then get offered the intervention program after one year follow-up assessment.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Tuning in to Kids

A parenting program that includes 6 group supervisions of parents, where emotion coaching and promotion of kids emotional competence are main focus.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Parent of a preschool child aged 4-5 years old

Exclusion Criteria

• Under the age of 18
• Not able to read and write in Norwegian

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Oslo

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Evalill Bølstad, PhD

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Evalill Bølstad, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Oslo

Locations

University of Oslo

Oslo, , Norway

Countries

Norway

Other Identifiers

002

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id