NCT03431545

An Integrative Approach to Improve Child Outcomes Through Research-based Parent and Teacher Interventions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 260 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Months – 35 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn whether a combination of two research-proven programs, a responsive caregiving parenting program and a teacher training program, will have an effect on infants' and toddlers' language, cognitive, social-emotional, and self-regulation skills. The interventions are designed to specifically target parent use of a responsive, stimulating caregiving style in the home in combination with teacher instructional practices and the use of a responsive interactive style in the classroom.

Conditions

• Growth & Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	PALS and	Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) include web-based parent training courses with remote coaching and in-person meetings that support the adults' developing a set of core behaviors that comprise a responsive interactive style including responses contingent to children's needs and interests with rich language input. Parents will begin their 11 week (infant) or 14 week (toddler) parenting program in October and complete it by April. There will be monthly Parent Meetings related to the content they are learning online. Post-assessments will occur in late April and May. Each weekly online parent session will take approximately 30 minutes to complete with a 40 - 60 minute weekly remote coach call.
BEHAVIORAL	BEECH	Beginning Education: Early Childcare at Home (BEECH) includes web-based teacher training courses with remote coaching and in-person meetings that support the adults' developing a set of core behaviors that comprise a responsive interactive style including responses contingent to children's needs and interests with rich language input. Teachers will complete the 20 online sessions weekly, except for planned center closings due to holidays or agency-related events. The three in-person trainings will occur before Session 1 and after Sessions 8 and 14. Each weekly online teacher session will take approximately one-hour for a teacher to complete with a 30 minute weekly remote coach call. Each in-person teacher training will be 6-hours in duration.
BEHAVIORAL	Control condition	Parents and teachers conduct business as usual in regards to care-giving in the school and at home.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-09-19
• Completion: 2019-09-19
• First posted: 2018-02-13
• Last updated: 2022-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States