Children's Socio-emotional Skills and Psychiatric Symptoms
Conditions
Keywords
Children, socio-emotional, socio-emotional skills, psychiatric symptoms, SDQ, Finland, School, School community, Teacher, Whole school approach, Intervention, Effectiveness study, Cluster randomised trial
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
Interventions
OTHERYhteispeli, whole school programme
OTHERTwo theoretical lectures
Sponsors
Tampere University
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
7 Years to 10 Years
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in children's psychiatric symptoms | 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline | SDQ - The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires |
| 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
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Change in children's executive functions | 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline | A set of cognitive functions tests |
| 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
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in teaching and parenting styles | 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline | A set of questions regarding child rearing |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Change in teacher and parent interaction | 6 months after baseline and 18 months after baseline | A set of teacher-parent interaction tests |
Countries
Finland
Outcome results
None listed