Learning for Hearts and Minds in Elementary School

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

600 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-01-10

Study Completion Date

2024-12-20

Brief Summary

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ABSTRACT- Introduction: Skills such as recognizing and managing emotions, developing empathy, building cooperative relationships, solving problems effectively and obtaining communication skills have gained importance in several schools and this has been made possible by Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL). Robust studies in this area in Latin America are lacking, and what happens in the brain and in our general physiology, from trainings related to SEL, needs to be better understood. Objectives: To assess the effects of Learning for Hearts and Minds Training (TACM) on positive and negative affect, empathy and compassion, emotional expression, self-compassion, life satisfaction, sense of community in the classroom, academic goals, school performance, brain activity and heart rate variability in 4th and 5th year elementary school students. Methods: This is a randomized controlled trial in clusters with cross-over, in approximately 600 students. By the end of the first semester, one group of students will receive the TACM and the other will be a waiting control group. In the second semester, the latter will receive the TACM and the former will continue the TACM practices. The groups will be evaluated in 5 moments during the year. A classroom will be randomly assigned to undergo an assessment of brain activity and cardiac variability to assess their ability to regulate emotions. Students, parents and teachers will be drawn for a qualitative interview at the end of the academic semesters about the effects of TACM.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Social Emotional Learning

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Elementary school students from public schools (N = 600) will be invited to participate in the Learning for Hearts and Minds Training.

Inclusion criteria: being students of the 4th and 5th years of elementary school I.

Exclusion criteria: not having both terms signed (free and informed consent by those responsible and assent by the students). The student is undergoing neurological or psychiatric treatment (in this case, students will be invited to participate in the training, but will not be included in the study sample). The teacher responsible for the classroom is undergoing neurological or psychiatric treatment, or has a condition that prevents him from applying the TACM. The teacher in charge did not sign the free and informed consent form for their participation.

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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First group to receive the intervention

This cluster of classes of different scholls will be instructed in the social emotional and ethical learning training (SEELearning) and being tested trought questionaries.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SEELearning Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This group will receive the Learning Training for Hearts and Minds and will be submitted to assessments and questionnaires that measure the improvement of well-being, reduction of stress and literacy in the contents and human values taught in the training.

The program aims to increase participants' awareness, compassion and engagement. Compassion refers to cultivating a way of relating to oneself, others and humanity through kindness, empathy and genuine care for the happiness and suffering of these individuals. Awareness refers to cultivating a detailed, first-person understanding of thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

Second group to receive the intervention

The cluster of classes of different scholls forming the second group, will not be instructed in the social emotional and ethical learning training (SEELearning) in the first semester, but will answer the questionaries during this period. Than, in next semester they will receive the Training.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Waiting list group of the intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The group will remain on a waiting list and will respond to questionnaires about well-being and other items before receiving the training and, in the second semester, during the period in which it will receive the training

Interventions

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SEELearning Training

This group will receive the Learning Training for Hearts and Minds and will be submitted to assessments and questionnaires that measure the improvement of well-being, reduction of stress and literacy in the contents and human values taught in the training.

The program aims to increase participants' awareness, compassion and engagement. Compassion refers to cultivating a way of relating to oneself, others and humanity through kindness, empathy and genuine care for the happiness and suffering of these individuals. Awareness refers to cultivating a detailed, first-person understanding of thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Waiting list group of the intervention

The group will remain on a waiting list and will respond to questionnaires about well-being and other items before receiving the training and, in the second semester, during the period in which it will receive the training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL