Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Parenting Behavior; Internalizing Behavior; Social Emotional Competence; Externalizing Behavior

• Registration Number: NCT06908330
• Lead Sponsor: Oregon Social Learning Center

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School (SSTRS) Program can help children entering kindergarten and their families. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1) Do children who participate in SSTRS have better social-emotional skills and mental health? and 2) Do parents who participate in SSTRS have more positive parenting skills and involvement in their children's learning?

Researchers will compare the SSTRS Program to the regular kindergarten curriculum without SSTRS to see if being in SSTRS helps children to have better mental health and parents to have better parenting skills.

Kindergarteners will have daily SSTRS lessons in their kindergarten classes for 8 weeks.

Their parents will watch videos and attend group meetings with other parents and answer questions about their own and their children's behaviors and mental health

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2025-03
• Study First Submitted: 2025-03-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-03-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-26
• Study First Posted: 2025-04-03
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-03
• Study Start: 2026-02
• Primary Completion: 2028-08
• Study Completion: 2028-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

• child entering kindergarten in school that is participiating in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• being in a classroom in which the teacher or EA was previously trained in another closely-related treatment protocol

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire	Parents will complete the measure at baseline, 2 months post-baseline at the end of the intervention and 9 months post-baseline. Teachers will complete the measure at 9 months post-baseline.	Parent and teacher report on the 25-item measure yields five subscales: Emotional Symptoms Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Conduct Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Hyperactivity Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems) , Peer Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), and Prosocial Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate better social skills). A Total Difficulties Score can also be derived by summing all of the scales except the Prosocial Scale resulting in a score raniging from 0 to 40 with higher scores denoting greater difficulties.
Office discipline referrals	These will be collected at 9 months post-baseline.	These are records of referrals for serious behaviors within the school setting. They are administartive records.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Oregon Social Learning Center; 🇺🇸 Eugene, Oregon, United States