Building the capacity of family day care educators to promote childrens social and emotional wellbeing: An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial.

Trialling the use of the Thrive Program to increase family day care educators knowledge about children's social and emotional wellbeing.

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12611000970943

Enrollment

Registered

2011-09-09

Start date

2011-09-12

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Childhood mental health problems are highly prevalent, experienced by one in five children living in low socioeconomic families. Although childcare settings, including family day care are ideal to promote children’s social and emotional wellbeing at a population level in a sustainable way, family day care educators receive limited training in promoting children’s mental health. This study is an exploratory wait-list control cluster randomised controlled trial to test the appropriateness, acceptability, cost, and effectiveness of “Thrive,” an intervention program to build the capacity of Family Day Care educators to promote children’s social and emotional wellbeing. Thrive aims to increase educators’ knowledge, confidence and skills in promoting children’s social and emotional wellbeing. A capacity building intervention in child mental health promotion for Family Day Care is an essential contribution to research, policy and practice. This initiative is the first internationally, and essential in building an evidence base of interventions in this extremely policy-timely setting.

Interventions

Family day care educators and the coordinating staff (the latter refered to as field workers) will both receive the Thrive program. The Thrive program includes 3 workshops for field workers and family day care educators (2 hours each; delivered over a one month period), monthly activity exchanges with other educators (1-2 hours) and focused discussion on social and emotional wellbeing during field worker monthy visits (1 hour). The intervention group will also receive resources associated with

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

All family day care educators and field workers within the scheme are eligible to receive the intervention program.

Exclusion criteria

Nil

Outcome results