Yhteispeli - Effectiveness Study on Promoting Childrens' Socio-emotional Skills in School

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Children's Socio-emotional Skills and Psychiatric Symptoms
• Interventions: Other: Yhteispeli, whole school programme; Other: Two theoretical lectures

• Registration Number: NCT02178332
• Lead Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-03
• Study First Submitted: 2014-04-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-06-26
• Study First Posted: 2014-06-30
• Primary Completion: 2015-09-30
• Study Completion: 2015-09-30
• Status Verified: 2021-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-11-29
• Last Update Posted: 2021-12-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4400

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

• None

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Yhteispeli, whole school programme	Yhteispeli, whole school programme	Yhteispeli-programme aims to support children's socio-emotional skills and well being at schools. Schools receive the Yhteispeli manual and teachers receive 3 and head masters 2 lecture days about use of Yhteispeli methods including group discussions and exercises. In addition every school is visited 4 times to support the use of Yhteispeli methods. (Lectures for the head masters March 2013 - November 2013, teachers August 2013 - January 2014)
Two theoretical lectures	Two theoretical lectures	Teachers receive two theoretical lectures on development of children's socio-emotional skills (3 hours in November 2013 and 3 hours in March 2014 ).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in children's socio-emotional skills	6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline	A set of socio-emotional skills tests A set of questions regarding bullying
Change in children's psychiatric symptoms	6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline	SDQ - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in teacher and work community (occupational) wellbeing	6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline	A set of teacher's occupational and work community wellbeing tests
Change in children's emotion recognition (and processing)	6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline	A set of emotion recognition (and processing) tests
Change in children's executive functions	6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline	A set of cognitive functions tests

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Olli Kiviruusu; 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Finland