Developing Resilience Skills and Social Competence in Youth in a School Setting

NCT ID: NCT06578026

Last Updated: 2024-08-29

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

169 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-06-16

Study Completion Date

2020-03-13

Brief Summary

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Our study aimed to answer the question: Can a resilience-based intervention improve the psychosocial and educational outcomes of students with psychosocial difficulties? We examined the effectiveness of a resilience-based group intervention, the Resilience Builder Program® (RBP), with students in low-SES school settings to determine if this treatment improves psychosocial and educational outcomes.

Detailed Description

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Enhancing resilience is valuable to youth from economically marginalized communities given that they often face greater challenges and hardships than their peers from more affluent communities.

Efforts to increase resilience skills in these youth are hampered because they disproportionately encounter barriers in access to mental health interventions. Implementing school-based services may be optimal to address these inequalities. This project explores the effectiveness of a school-based group intervention (the Resilience Builder Program®) related to resilience and academic functioning in a sample of children from economically marginalized communities. Students (N = 169) with social-emotional difficulties were recruited from five elementary schools and randomly assigned to participate in the Resilience Builder Program® (RBP) immediately or following a semester delay. Participants, their parents, and teachers completed measures of resilience and academic functioning. Repeated-measures analysis of variance compares groups across time (pre-, post-intervention) on psychosocial and academic outcomes.

Conditions

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Psychosocial Functioning

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

randomized control trial
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Treatment

Received the Resilience Builder Program intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Resilience Builder Program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The Resilience Builder Program® group therapy will meet for one class period once a week during the semester (12 sessions). The group aims to improve resilience skills: areas such as the ability to control emotions and behavior, social skills and interactions with peers, problem-solving skills, ability to be flexible in different situations, self-esteem, and optimistic thinking. The groups involve the group leader presenting a new topic and skill, the students discussing this topic and developing strategies associated with the skill, the students practicing the skill while getting feedback from the group leader, and a period focused on self-control strategies. A letter reviewing each session will be sent home to the parent/guardian each week. Also, each child will be asked to do an assignment between weekly sessions to help him/her practice new skills.

Control

Did not receive the Resilience Builder Program

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Resilience Builder Program

The Resilience Builder Program® group therapy will meet for one class period once a week during the semester (12 sessions). The group aims to improve resilience skills: areas such as the ability to control emotions and behavior, social skills and interactions with peers, problem-solving skills, ability to be flexible in different situations, self-esteem, and optimistic thinking. The groups involve the group leader presenting a new topic and skill, the students discussing this topic and developing strategies associated with the skill, the students practicing the skill while getting feedback from the group leader, and a period focused on self-control strategies. A letter reviewing each session will be sent home to the parent/guardian each week. Also, each child will be asked to do an assignment between weekly sessions to help him/her practice new skills.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* psychosocial deficits

Exclusion Criteria

* psychosis
* extreme aggression
* autism
Minimum Eligible Age

9 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

11 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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The Catholic University of America

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Brendan Rich

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Montgomery County Public Schools

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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16-057

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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