NCT05729815

Body-oriented Interventions on Preschoolers' Social-emotional Competence

Effects of Three Body-oriented Intervention Programs on Preschoolers' Social-emotional Competence

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 62 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Évora · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Experimental study with 4 groups (3 experimental and 1 control). Examine the effects of 3 body-oriented intervention programs on preschoolers' social-emotional competence. Intervention programs focused on relaxation, loose parts play and combined loose parts play and relaxation, for 12 weeks with 2 30-min sessions per week.

Detailed description

To examine the chronic effects of the intervention programs, instruments were collected at baseline (pretest) and at the end of the 12-week period (post-test). To measure the acute effects, salivary cortisol was measured at the beginning and end of the 1st and the 24th sessions.

Conditions

• Social-emotional Competence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Relaxation	Sessions focused on relaxations activities (Jacques Choque Method).
OTHER	Loose parts play	Loose parts play-based sessions, with open-ended materials.
OTHER	Combined	Sessions focused on loose parts play and relaxation activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-02
• Primary completion: 2022-06-09
• Completion: 2022-06-09
• First posted: 2023-02-15
• Last updated: 2023-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal