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NCT Number: NCT06908330

Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School (SSTRS) Program can help children entering kindergarten and their families. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1) Do children who participate in SSTRS have better social-emotional skills and mental health? and 2) Do parents who participate in SSTRS have more positive parenting skills and involvement in their children's learning?

Researchers will compare the SSTRS Program to the regular kindergarten curriculum without SSTRS to see if being in SSTRS helps children to have better mental health and parents to have better parenting skills.

Kindergarteners will have daily SSTRS lessons in their kindergarten classes for 8 weeks.

Their parents will watch videos and attend group meetings with other parents and answer questions about their own and their children's behaviors and mental health

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Key information

Conditions

Parenting Behavior Externalizing Behavior Internalizing Behavior Social Emotional Competence

Age range

4 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • child entering kindergarten in school that is participiating in the study

Exclusion criteria

  • being in a classroom in which the teacher or EA was previously trained in another closely-related treatment protocol

Treatment and study plan

Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program

Behavioral

The SSTRS Program is a developmentally-tailored, school-based preventive intervention focusing on children and their parents at the critical transition to kindergarten to prevent deficits in children's social-emotional skills-which are known transdiagnostic risk factors for a range of mental health problems. Children receive SSTRS programming during their regular school day for eight weeks at the beginning of the school year. Parents receive SSTRS programming via informational videos and virtual parenting groups during the same time period.

Primary outcomes

  1. Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire

    Time frame: Parents will complete the measure at baseline, 2 months post-baseline at the end of the intervention and 9 months post-baseline. Teachers will complete the measure at 9 months post-baseline.

    Parent and teacher report on the 25-item measure yields five subscales: Emotional Symptoms Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Conduct Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Hyperactivity Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems) , Peer Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), and Prosocial Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate better social skills). A Total Difficulties Score can also be derived by summing all of the scales except the Prosocial Scale resulting in a score raniging from 0 to 40 with higher scores denoting greater difficulties.

  2. Office discipline referrals

    Time frame: These will be collected at 9 months post-baseline.

    These are records of referrals for serious behaviors within the school setting. They are administartive records.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Deena Scheidt

CONTACT

[email protected]

5414852711

Katherine Pears, Ph.D.

CONTACT

[email protected]

5414852711

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Oregon Social Learning Center

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Registry information

Official study title

Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health: A Pilot Test of the Strengthening Social-Emotional Skills for Relating and Thriving at School (SSTRS) Program

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Apr 3, 2025
Registry last updated
Apr 3, 2025

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