NCT04164472

NIH R01 Friend to Friend With Coaching

The Friend to Friend Program: Effectiveness When Conducted by School Staff

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5,250 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study examines the effectiveness of the Friend to Friend (F2F) program when conducted by teachers and counselors with active coaching from the research team. The project involves 14 small group sessions for relationally aggressive girls and 8 classroom sessions. Students, teachers, counselors and parents at intervention and control schools fill out pre- and post- program questionnaires.

Detailed description

This study takes a proven effective program (Friend to Friend) that was initially run by the research team in a clinical trial and examines for the first time its effectiveness when conducted by teachers and counselors with active coaching from the research team. The primary target population for this study will be 4th-5th grade relationally aggressive girls. In intervention schools, these girls will participate in Friend to Friend with Coaching (14 small group sessions, 8 classroom sessions and additional pre- and post- program questionnaires). In both intervention and control schools all 4th-5th grade students (boys and girls) will participate in a screening measure to identify the relational aggressors and pre- and post-program questionnaires. Counselors and 4th-5th grade teachers in both conditions will participate in pre/post questionnaires and will also participate in training, coaching, the small group intervention and classroom sessions in intervention schools. These procedures will be repeated with new students in 5 of the F2F with Coaching schools the following school year, except that the research team will provide minimal coaching to staff running the intervention in year 2.

Conditions

• Aggression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Friend to Friend (F2F) with Coaching	Friend to Friend (F2F) with Coaching has 14 small group sessions and 8 classroom sessions as led by school staff with coaching from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) research team. The program aims to improve problem solving and prosocial behaviors, and decrease aggressive behaviors.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-12
• Primary completion: 2025-06-30
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2019-11-15
• Last updated: 2025-11-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States