Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health

NCT ID: NCT06908330

Last Updated: 2025-04-03

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

150 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2026-02-28

Study Completion Date

2028-11-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School (SSTRS) Program can help children entering kindergarten and their families. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1) Do children who participate in SSTRS have better social-emotional skills and mental health? and 2) Do parents who participate in SSTRS have more positive parenting skills and involvement in their children's learning?

Researchers will compare the SSTRS Program to the regular kindergarten curriculum without SSTRS to see if being in SSTRS helps children to have better mental health and parents to have better parenting skills.

Kindergarteners will have daily SSTRS lessons in their kindergarten classes for 8 weeks.

Their parents will watch videos and attend group meetings with other parents and answer questions about their own and their children's behaviors and mental health

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Parenting Behavior Social Emotional Competence Internalizing Behavior Externalizing Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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SSTRS group

These participants will participate in the SSTRS intervention.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The SSTRS Program is a developmentally-tailored, school-based preventive intervention focusing on children and their parents at the critical transition to kindergarten to prevent deficits in children's social-emotional skills-which are known transdiagnostic risk factors for a range of mental health problems. Children receive SSTRS programming during their regular school day for eight weeks at the beginning of the school year. Parents receive SSTRS programming via informational videos and virtual parenting groups during the same time period.

Services as Usual

These participants will receive kindergarten programming as usual.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program

The SSTRS Program is a developmentally-tailored, school-based preventive intervention focusing on children and their parents at the critical transition to kindergarten to prevent deficits in children's social-emotional skills-which are known transdiagnostic risk factors for a range of mental health problems. Children receive SSTRS programming during their regular school day for eight weeks at the beginning of the school year. Parents receive SSTRS programming via informational videos and virtual parenting groups during the same time period.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* child entering kindergarten in school that is participiating in the study

Exclusion Criteria

* being in a classroom in which the teacher or EA was previously trained in another closely-related treatment protocol
Minimum Eligible Age

4 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Oregon Social Learning Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Katherine C. Pears

Senior Scientist

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Katherine Pears, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Oregon Social Learning Center

Locations

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Oregon Social Learning Center

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Katherine Pears, Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

5414852711

Deena Scheidt

Role: CONTACT

5414852711

Facility Contacts

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Katherine Pears, Ph.D.

Role: primary

5414852711

Deena Scheidt

Role: backup

5414852711

Other Identifiers

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R34MH138714

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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R34MH138714

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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