Effectiveness evaluation of the Incredible Years Toddler programme

Quasi-experimental evaluation of the Incredible Years Toddler programme for improving children's socioemotional development at age 5: a Born in Bradford's Better Start (BiBBS) cohort study

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN49991769

Enrollment

1336

Registered

2023-04-03

Start date

2018-08-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2023-10-09

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Conditions

Prevention of parental distress resulting in child conduct and behavioural disorder Not Applicable

Interventions

This study will compare outcomes for BiBBS children whose parents have taken part in IY-T to BiBBS children whose parents have not taken part in IY-T. It will explore the effects of IY-T on children’s

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Eligibility criteria for the intervention group: 1. Consented to be a part of BiBBS 2. Parent consented to a referral and enrolled in IY-T Eligibility for the matched comparison group: 1. Consented to be a part of BiBBS 2. Parent of a child aged between 12 and 36 months at any time in the duration of service delivery (to ensure that matched cases are comparable) 3. Parent has not been referred or enrolled in IY-T at any timepoint

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Participant is not currently enrolled in BiBBS cohort study

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The primary outcome is the child’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) profile which will be linked to individual BiBBS children through their routine education records. The EYFS profile is completed by teachers for children when they reach age 5 years of age, at the end of their term in reception. It contains 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs) relating to different areas of learning (Department for Education, 2021). Children are assigned a score of either “Emerging” (not reaching expected levels) or “Expected” (reaching expected levels) for each ELG. For the primary outcome (child social and emotional development), the researchers will examine only the most relevant ELGs to IY-T. These are the ‘communication and language’ and ‘personal, social, and emotional’ development areas, with a total of five goals. The binary responses for each of these six goals will be summed to generate a summary score between 0 and 5.	—

Measure

Time frame

The primary outcome is the child’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) profile which will be linked to individual BiBBS children through their routine education records. The EYFS profile is completed by teachers for children when they reach age 5 years of age, at the end of their term in reception. It contains 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs) relating to different areas of learning (Department for Education, 2021). Children are assigned a score of either “Emerging” (not reaching expected levels) or “Expected” (reaching expected levels) for each ELG. For the primary outcome (child social and emotional development), the researchers will examine only the most relevant ELGs to IY-T. These are the ‘communication and language’ and ‘personal, social, and emotional’ development areas, with a total of five goals. The binary responses for each of these six goals will be summed to generate a summary score between 0 and 5.

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Child early years development: the binary responses for each of the 17 ELGs will be used to generate a summary score, where a total score between 0 and 17 will indicate how many of all the ELGs were assigned a score of ‘expected’. Measured when children reach age 5 years of age.	—

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Contacts

Public ContactKate Mooney

kate.mooney@york.ac.uk+44 (0)1904 321312

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 8, 2026