Clinical trial NCT05890456: Students With Involved Families and Teachers
Official title: Efficacy of the Students With Involved Families and Teachers (SWIFT) Program for Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emotional Regulation
Adolescent Behavior
Parenting
Keywords: Positive Parenting
Behavior Regulation
Academic Success
Lead sponsor: Oregon Social Learning Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-06-06
Enrollment: 320
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Students and their families will be randomly assigned to the SWIFT Program or SAU conditions. A blocked design will be used where randomization will occur at the individual level within each school once a family has agreed to study participation. This way variation between schools (blocks) will not affect the standard errors of treatment effect estimates. Key outcomes will be tested at Time 1 (T1, baseline), Time 2 (T2, 6 months post-baseline), Time 3 (T3, 12 months post-baseline), and Time 4 (T4, 18 months post-baseline).
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: PURPOSE: In the proposed project, the investigators seek to examine whether the SWIFT Program might be efficacious to improve students' prosocial skills and emotion and behavior regulation and improve home-school communication and the use of positive parenting practices for families. The investigators will also test whether the SWIFT program might be efficacious to improve students' longer-term school adjustment and parents' involvement in school.

SETTING: Study activities will take place in ten school districts in Lane County, OR. The districts have approximately 10,000 middle school students (Grades 6-8), and approximately 60% of students are eligible for free and reduced price lunch. Some participating districts participated in the IES-funded Goal 2 study to develop the SWIFT Program.

POPULATION: 320 students in Grades 6-8 who are receiving special education services for emotional or behavioral disorders, and transitioning or at risk of transitioning between school settings and placements will be recruited. Parents and content area teachers of all participating students will be recruited to complete assessment measures. It is expected that up to 15% of the children in the study will be of Latino ethnicity and approximately 60% will be European-American and 10-20% will be of other or multiple ethnicities.

INTERVENTION: The SWIFT Program is a 9-12 month intervention that includes four components: (a) behavioral progress monitoring, (b) case management of the intervention elements and coordination with the school, (c) parent support to promote parent engagement/collaboration with the school and study routines in the home, and (d) behavioral skills coaching for students.

SERVICES AS USUAL (SAU) CONTROL CONDITION: The SAU students and families will continue to receive any services that they were receiving prior to their entry into the study (as will the SWIFT students and families). These may include school-based interventions and supports and related services as required in the student's IEP.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students in grades 5 through 8
* In school districts in the the Lane Education Service District
* Eligible for or at risk of eligibility for special education services for emotional or behavior disorders
* Transitioning or at risk of transitioning between school settings or placements
* English or Spanish speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students receiving intensive family and school support services from local community mental health agencies
* Students with a hearing or vision impairment that would limit participation in the program components or the assessment protocol.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes from Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes from Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Academic Outcomes from Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Academic Outcomes from Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Parenting Outcomes from Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Stability in School Placement from Baseline to 6 Months
timeFrame: Baseline to 6 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes from Baseline to 12 Months
timeFrame: Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes from Baseline to 12 Months
timeFrame: Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Academic Outcomes from Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Academic Outcomes from Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Parenting Outcomes from Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Stability in School Placement from Baseline to 12 Months
timeFrame: Baseline to 12 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes from Baseline to 18 Months
timeFrame: Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes from Baseline to 18 Months
timeFrame: Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Academic Outcomes from Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Youth Academic Outcomes from Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Mean Changes in Parenting Outcomes from Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
timeFrame: Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
measure: Stability in School Placement from Baseline to 18 Months
timeFrame: Baseline to 18 Months Post-Baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Eugene
country: United States
facility: Oregon Social Learning Center
state: Oregon
Study officials:
affiliation: Oregon Social Learning Center
name: Rohanna Buchanan, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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