NCT04651465

Norwegian Tuning in to Kids Effectivity Study

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 431 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oslo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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

Conditions

• Emotional Intelligence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tuning in to Kids	A parenting program that includes 6 group supervisions of parents, where emotion coaching and promotion of kids emotional competence are main focus.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-07
• Primary completion: 2027-12-31
• Completion: 2027-12-31
• First posted: 2020-12-03
• Last updated: 2022-11-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway