School-based Intervention to Address Climate Change Emotions

NCT ID: NCT06781788

Last Updated: 2025-08-05

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

15 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-10-01

Study Completion Date

2024-01-19

Brief Summary

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The goal of this study was to qualitatively document the social validity of an intervention combining creative arts and philosophy inquiry and to examine its acceptability, the perceived goals, and perceived benefits for children's mental health and ability to cope with climate change from the perspective of one elemetary-school class students and their teacher.

The guiding research question was: How do children and their teacher perceive the acceptability, the goals and the benefits of the intervention? The participants were asked to participate in a seven-week creative arts and philosophical inquiry intervention. Once a week, a research assistant led a workshop using creative arts and group philosophical inquiry to discuss the topic of climate change and the emotions that can arise. Students participated in a brief individual interview after the intervention. The teacher also participated in an individual online interview.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Eco-anxiety

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

The ORBIT model for intervention development is a framework developed by Czajkowski and colleagues (2015) in collaboration with the National Institute for Health. The model is a systematic approach that helps guide researchers through the various stages of intervention development, evaluation and implementation. The model emphasizes the iterative and dynamic nature of intervention development and evaluation. Phase 1b aims to refine the intervention to optimize it while retaining the components essential to its power to change, which corresponds to the first part of this framework. The data obtained in the previous phase are therefore taken into account to maximize the intervention's effectiveness. Among other things, qualitative methods to assess the acceptability of the intervention in the target population can be used.
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Creative arts an philosophy inquiry intervention

Participation in a seven-week school-based creative arts and philosophy inquiry intervention to talk about climate change emotions

Group Type OTHER

Making room for climate emotions in the classroom

Intervention Type OTHER

The "Making room for climate emotions in the classroom" program is designed to address emotions as students learn (formally or informally) about climate change. Each session features a drawing, photography, Lego sculpture, rock painting or collage/drawing workshop to address themes, explore emotions/feelings/experiences and initiate discussions on topics related to climate change.

Interventions

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Making room for climate emotions in the classroom

The "Making room for climate emotions in the classroom" program is designed to address emotions as students learn (formally or informally) about climate change. Each session features a drawing, photography, Lego sculpture, rock painting or collage/drawing workshop to address themes, explore emotions/feelings/experiences and initiate discussions on topics related to climate change.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Elementary school students between the ages of 8 and 12 years old who's teacher accepted to participate in the study
* Elementary school teacher
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Bishop's University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Université du Québec a Montréal

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Terra Léger-Goodes

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Bishop's University

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

Other Identifiers

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767-2023-1376-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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