Clinical trial NCT03116243: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study
Official title: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start
Keywords: migrant and seasonal head start
early childhood education
head start
Lead sponsor: Abt Associates
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
Collaborators: name: The Catholic University of America
name: Westat
First posted: 2017-04-17
Enrollment: 1404
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study population includes children birth to five years who attend Migrant Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs, along with their parents and teachers, center directors, and program directors.

Brief summary: The MSHS Study is a nationally representative study commissioned by the U.S. Office of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families that will describe the characteristics and experiences of the children and families who enroll in MSHS and the practices and services of the MSHS programs that serve them. The MSHS Study draws heavily on the Design for MSHS Survey Report (2011) and is informed by the current context of key policy and programmatic issues and broader issues impacting the lives of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.

The MSHS Study has two components: a Program/Center component and a Classroom, Family, Child component that are based on distinct samples. The first component is off-site and consists of mailed surveys that will be sent to the universe of MSHS program directors and a representative subset of center directors to provide information on program and center operations. The second component consists of onsite data collection - including classroom observations, surveys with teachers and assistant teachers, parent interviews, teacher and parent child reports, and direct child assessments - with a nationally-representative sample of centers, classrooms, families and children.

Once data are collected, the study will address a set of research questions that can be summarized into three broad categories: (1) What are the characteristics of MSHS programs, families, and children? (2) What services do MSHS programs provide, what instructional and language practices are used, and what is the quality of MSHS classrooms? and (3) What are the associations between MSHS characteristics and child/family well-being?


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in participating Migrant and Seasonal Head Start centers/classrooms across the U.S. and their teachers and parents. Also includes center directors and program directors.

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: Language Literacy
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Emergent Literacy
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Emotional Skills
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Classroom Quality
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Washington
country: United States
facility: Abt Associates, Inc.
state: District of Columbia
Study officials:
affiliation: The Catholic Univeristy of America
name: Sandra Barrueco, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Abt Associates
name: Michael L Lopez, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Abt Associates
name: Linda Caswell, Ed.D.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: O'Brien RW, Barrueco S, Lopez ML, D'Elio ML. Design for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Survey. Washington, D.C.: Administration for Children and Families, 2011.