Clinical trial NCT03524105: Promoting Success for Pre-K Teachers, Families and Children
Official title: Promoting Success for Pre-K Teachers, Families and Children
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emotional Stress
Keywords: Socio Economic Adversity
Child Development
Poverty
racial disparity
ethnic disparity
Lead sponsor: NYU Langone Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-05-14
Enrollment: 570
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The current study examines the impact of ParentCorps in high-poverty Early Education Centers in New York City (NYC). The study is conducted within the context of the NYC Department of Education (DOE) Pre-K Thrive initiative. As part of this initiative, the Center for Early Childhood Health and Development (CEHD) at NYU Langone Health is implementing services to strengthen family engagement and support parents and teachers in building safe, nurturing and predictable environments for young children. Services include resources to support social emotional learning (SEL) and family engagement (FE) for all Pre-K for All (PKFA) programs and all PKFA families; Professional Learning to support the use of evidence-based SEL and FE practices for teachers and leaders from 350 PKFA programs; and ParentCorps programs for PKFA children and families in 50 PKFA programs (which is a subset of PKFA programs receiving Professional Learning). The current study evaluates the relative value of Thrive Professional Learning plus ParentCorps compared to Thrive Professional Learning.

This study will include 158 pre-K teachers (teachers and teaching assistants) across 23 Centers (12 Centers receiving Thrive Professional Learning plus ParentCorps, 11 Centers receiving Thrive Professional Learning only). All teachers in the 23 Centers will be invited to complete 2 self-report surveys over a two-year period. A sub-set of teachers will be randomly selected to participate in 2 interviews during this period. In addition, teachers in sites randomized to ParentCorps (12 Centers) will be invited to consent to the use of weekly implementation surveys, observational data and semi-structured interviews about experiences with implementation, collected as part of standard implementation practice of ParentCorps, for the purposes of this study.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Teachers who are teaching staff in the Pre-K classrooms in the 23 Centers.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Only Pre-K teachers from the 23 Centers will be invited to participate in the study. Leaders and other school staff from the Centers are excluded from the study.
* Family-level administrative data only on Pre-K families from the 12 Centers assigned to the Professional Learning plus ParentCorps condition will be obtained from the NYC DOE. Families in other sites are excluded from the request for family-level administrative data.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Teacher's knowledge measured using self- report surveys
timeFrame: 15 Months
measure: Teachers' social emotional competencies measured using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
timeFrame: 15 Months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: NYU Langone Health
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: NYU Langone Health
name: Laurie Brotman, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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