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NCT Number: NCT04651465

Norwegian Tuning in to Kids Effectivity Study

The current Randomised Controlled Trial study delivers and evaluate an evidence-based prevention program from Australia (Tuning in to Kids: TIK) to parent of preschool children. Reports from parents and preschool teachers are used to determine whether the program leads to universal benefits of improved wellbeing and reduced mental health difficulties for children and parents.

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This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Conditions

Emotional Intelligence

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Oslo

Oslo, 0358, Norway

About this study

The study recruits approximately 250 parents of preschool children through local kindergartens to evaluate the N-TIK program as a universal and selective prevention program. The study will use a cluster randomized controlled design and comparing an intervention with a wait-list control sample. Baseline measurement (Time 1) are gathered from parents, children and teachers and include measurement of parenting, parent functioning, child emotion competence, child behavior and child kindergarten adjustment. Following baseline assessment families is allocated into Intervention or Wait-list conditions. Intervention parents attend a 6-session group parenting program where they learn to emotion coach their children and regulate their own emotions. These groups are facilitated by selected research team facilitators. Post-program, Intervention parents complete program evaluation measures (Time 2) to provide program feedback. At 12-month follow-up (Time 3) baseline assessments are repeated for Intervention and Wait-list participants with preschool teachers reporting on children's adjustment. Wait-list parents are then offered the N-TIK program delivered by community practitioners who have been trained by the project team in the intervention and have previously co-facilitated groups alongside the research group facilitators. This ensures the program can be used beyond just the research study building sustainability of the preventive intervention in the municipalities

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Parent of a preschool child aged 4-5 years old

Exclusion criteria

  • Under the age of 18
  • Not able to read and write in Norwegian

Treatment and study plan

Tuning in to Kids

Behavioral

A parenting program that includes 6 group supervisions of parents, where emotion coaching and promotion of kids emotional competence are main focus.

Primary outcomes

  1. Parent Emotion Socialization Questionnaire (PESQ)

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

    Parent Emotion Socialization Questionnaire (PESQ) is a scale with items that are scored from 1 to 5, where 5 indicates high levels of specific parenting beliefs (i.e. emotion coaching and emotion dismissive beliefs). Change in PESQ from baseline to post intervention (up to 6 months after baseline) to 1 year follow-up measured by questionnaire reports.

  2. Coping with children negative emotions scale (CCNES)

    Time frame: Uo to 18 months

    Coping with children negative emotions scale (CCNES) is a scale with items that are scored from 1 to 7, where 7 indicates high levels of specific parenting behavior (i.e. supportive and nonsupportive parenting behavior). Change in CCNES from baseline to post intervention (up to 6 months after baseline) to 1 year follow-up measured by questionnaire reports.

  3. Eysenck's child behavior questionnaire (ECBI)

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

    Eysenck's child behavior questionnaire (ECBI) is a scale with items that are scored from 1 to 7, where 7 indicates high levels of behavior problems. Change in ECBI from baseline to post intervention (up to 6 months after baseline) to 1 year follow-up measured by questionnaire reports.

  4. Preschool anxiety scale - revised (PAS-R)

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

    Preschool anxiety scale - revised (PAS-R) is a scale with items that are scored from 1 to 5, where higher score indicates higher levels of anxiety. Change in PAS-R from baseline to post intervention (up to 6 months after baseline) to 1 year follow-up measured by questionnaire reports.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Affect Integration Inventory (AII)

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

    Affect Integration Inventory (AII) is a scale with scores from 0 to 8, where 8 indicates high affect integration. Change in AII from baseline to post intervention (up to 6 months after baseline) to 1 year follow-up measured by questionnaire reports.

  2. Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

    Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is a scale with scores from 1 to 5, where 5 indicates more difficulties with emotion regulation. Change in DERS from baseline to post intervention (up to 6 months after baseline) to 1 year follow-up measured by questionnaire reports.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Oslo

Other

Registry information

Acronym: N-TIK

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Dec 3, 2020
Registry last updated
Nov 7, 2022

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