Clinical trial NCT02178332: Yhteispeli - Effectiveness Study on Promoting Childrens' Socio-emotional Skills in School
Official title: Yhteispeli: Intervention Effectiveness on Elementary School Childrens' Socio-emotional Skills and Psychiatric Symptoms
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Children's Socio-emotional Skills and Psychiatric Symptoms
Keywords: Children
socio-emotional
socio-emotional skills
psychiatric symptoms
SDQ
Finland
School
School community
Teacher
Whole school approach
Intervention
Effectiveness study
Cluster randomised trial
Lead sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
Collaborators: name: Tampere University
First posted: 2014-06-30
Enrollment: 4400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 7
Maximum age (years): 10
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this cluster randomised trial is to investigate whether the Yhteispeli whole school programme is effective in improving children's socio-emotional skills and mental health and socio-emotional skills.

All Finnish elementary schools and their classes in 1-3 grades were invited to participate in the study. The schools were randomly allocated to receive either Yhteispeli programme or two lectures


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All children from volunteering elementary schools and classes (grades 1 to 3) whose parents gave consent to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in children's psychiatric symptoms
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
measure: Change in children's socio-emotional skills
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in children's emotion recognition (and processing)
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
measure: Change in children's executive functions
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
measure: Change in teacher and work community (occupational) wellbeing
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
Other outcomes:
measure: Change in teacher and parent interaction
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
measure: Change in children's and teachers' perceptions of class environment
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
measure: Change in teaching and parenting styles
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
measure: Change in teachers' and parents' socio-emotional skills
timeFrame: 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline
Locations:
city: Helsinki
country: Finland
facility: Olli Kiviruusu
Study officials:
affiliation: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
name: Olli Kiviruusu, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Bjorklund K, Liski A, Samposalo H, Lindblom J, Hella J, Huhtinen H, Ojala T, Alasuvanto P, Koskinen HL, Kiviruusu O, Hemminki E, Punamaki RL, Sund R, Solantaus T, Santalahti P. "Together at school"--a school-based intervention program to promote socio-emotional skills and mental health in children: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2014 Oct 7;14:1042. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1042.
citation: Kiviruusu O, Bjorklund K, Koskinen HL, Liski A, Lindblom J, Kuoppamaki H, Alasuvanto P, Ojala T, Samposalo H, Harmes N, Hemminki E, Punamaki RL, Sund R, Santalahti P. Short-term effects of the "Together at School" intervention program on children's socio-emotional skills: a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychol. 2016 May 26;4(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s40359-016-0133-4.