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

• Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT02178332
• Collaborator: Tampere University (Other)
• Enrollment: 4,400
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 31
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 142

Study Details

Study Description

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

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Children's Socio-emotional Skills and Psychiatric Symptoms	Other: Yhteispeli, whole school programme; Other: Two theoretical lectures	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 4400 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Yhteispeli: Intervention Effectiveness on Elementary School Childrens' Socio-emotional Skills and Psychiatric Symptoms
• Study Start Date: Mar 1, 2013
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Sep 30, 2015
• Actual Study Completion Date: Sep 30, 2015

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: 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)	Other: Yhteispeli, whole school programme
Active Comparator: 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 ).	Other: Two theoretical lectures

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Change in children's psychiatric symptoms [6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline]

   SDQ - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires

2. 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

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. 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

2. Change in children's executive functions [6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline]

   A set of cognitive functions tests

3. 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

Other Outcome Measures

1. Change in teacher and parent interaction [6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline]

   A set of teacher-parent interaction tests

2. Change in children's and teachers' perceptions of class environment [6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline]

   A set of class environment questions rated by the teacher and children

3. Change in teaching and parenting styles [6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline]

   A set of questions regarding child rearing

4. Change in teachers' and parents' socio-emotional skills [6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline]

   A set of questions regarding adult socio-emotional skills

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 7 Years to 10 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Olli Kiviruusu	Helsinki		Finland

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
• Tampere University

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Olli Kiviruusu, PhD, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

• Björklund K, Liski A, Samposalo H, Lindblom J, Hella J, Huhtinen H, Ojala T, Alasuvanto P, Koskinen HL, Kiviruusu O, Hemminki E, Punamäki 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.

• Responsible Party: Olli Kiviruusu, Research Manager, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02178332
• Other Study ID Numbers: THL/455/6.00.00/2014
• First Posted: Jun 30, 2014
• Last Update Posted: Dec 13, 2021
• Last Verified: Nov 1, 2021

• Keywords provided by Olli Kiviruusu, Research Manager, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare: Children; socio-emotional; socio-emotional skills; psychiatric symptoms; SDQ; Finland; School; School community; Teacher; Whole school approach; Intervention; Effectiveness study; Cluster randomised trial

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Dec 13, 2021