Clinical trial NCT04430010: Multi-level Determinants of Implementation and Sustainment in the Education Sector
Official title: Multi-level Determinants of Implementation and Sustainment in the Education Sector
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Evidence Based Programs in Schools
Lead sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
First posted: 2020-06-12
Enrollment: 588
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to learn more about teachers' sustainment of use of core components of BEST in CLASS in a follow-up study.

Detailed description: The goal of this study is to help understand how to successfully implement and sustain evidence based programs (EBP) in the education sector. The study will look at how questions such as what teacher, program, and school characteristics impact sustainment of the EBP BEST in CLASS, what modifications to BEST in CLASS represent a sustained program, and how do teacher, program, and school characteristics influence sustainment of BEST in CLASS.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Teacher participants

* teach in general education Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade
* consent to participate
* proficient in English
* participated as a BEST in CLASS teacher who received coaching in the prior year

Family participants

* proficient in English
* have a school-age child or children
* consent to participate

Children participants

* enrolled in a general Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade classroom
* proficient in English
* at elevated risk for EBD
* demonstration of externalizing behaviors that interfere with participation in the classroom (e.g., disruption, aggression) as indicated by teacher rating
* parental/guardian consent to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

Teacher participants

* do not teach in general education Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grades
* were not part of the BEST in CLASS intervention condition in the year prior
* do not consent to participate
* do not speak fluent English
* do not have at least one student that meets the inclusion criteria

Family participants

* do not speak proficient English
* do not provide consent
* do not have elementary aged children will be excluded.

Children participants

* caregivers do not provide permission for participation
* caregiver(s) do not speak proficient English
* are not proficient in English
* do not screen in as demonstrating risk for EBD

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Program Adherence
timeFrame: baseline to 9 months
measure: Change in Program Competence
timeFrame: baseline to 9 months
measure: Change in student disruptive behavior problems
timeFrame: Baseline to 9 months
measure: Change in student prosocial behavior
timeFrame: Baseline to 9 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Gainesville
country: United States
facility: University of Florida
state: Florida
city: Richmond
country: United States
facility: Virginia Commonwealth University
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
name: Bryce D McLeod, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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