Developing, implementing and evaluating a teacher-training intervention to promote child mental health in the early grades of primary school in Jamaica

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Violence, mental health, quality of primary school environment; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN94883310
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of the West Indies

Brief Summary

2019 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31390743/ (added 04/06/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-04-13
• Study Completion: 2016-06-30
• Last Update Posted: 15 June 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 275

Inclusion Criteria

1. Schools: Primary schools situated in specified urban areas in Kingston & St. Andrew, Jamaica with 3-5 Grade 1 classrooms
2. Teachers: All teachers in the selected preschools
3. Children: A random sample of four children from each Grade one classroom in the selected preschools

Exclusion Criteria

1. Primary schools with less than three and more than five classrooms/teachers
2. Children with identified developmental disability or delay
3. Children with attendance less than 50%

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Violence against children by teachers: measured by direct observation over 2 school days in each class. Event recording will be used to record use of corporal punishment and verbal abuse (e.g., threats, name-calling) by teachers.<br> 2. Aggression at the classroom level: measured by observer ratings of the level of children’s interpersonal aggression and destructive behaviours in 20-minute intervals over 1 school day.<br> Outcomes will be measured at post-test only.<br>