social-emotional skills (sociaal-emotionele vaardigheden)
Conditions
Interventions
The aim of the ZF program is to improve the children’s social and emotional skills. The ultimate goal is to strengthen their mental resilience and to diminish their risks of developing emotional and/o
Sponsors
Trimbos-institute
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Schools with a relatively high percentage of children from low SES families are recruited throughout the Netherlands; 2. Participating children are aged 6 to 8 (primary school, group 3 and 4); 3. Aim is that at least one third (33%) of the recruited schools have a significant immigrant population to enable meaningful analyses between immigrant groups, which is operationalized as that 8 of the 24 classes per condition has 20% or more immigrant students, and half of these classes per condition has 40% or more immigrant students in their classes; 4. Passive informed consent from parents.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Participants not meeting the aforementioned criteria.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Social-emotional skills. Questionnaires completed by the children, teachers and parents will be used to measure the primary outcome. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Behavior problems (internalizing and externalizing) - (teacher and parent reports); 2. Class Climate - (teacher- and child reports). Questionnaires will be used to measure the abovementioned secondary outcomes. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactR. Zanden, van der
Trimbos-instituut P.O Box 725
Outcome results
None listed