NCT06781788

School-based Intervention to Address Climate Change Emotions

I Want to Talk About Climate Change, But I Wish I Didn't Have to… A Descriptive Qualitative Study of an Intervention Combining Creative Arts and Philosophical Inquiry to Help Elementary School Students Cope With Climate Change Emotions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université du Québec a Montréal · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study was to qualitatively document the social validity of an intervention combining creative arts and philosophy inquiry and to examine its acceptability, the perceived goals, and perceived benefits for children's mental health and ability to cope with climate change from the perspective of one elemetary-school class students and their teacher. The guiding research question was: How do children and their teacher perceive the acceptability, the goals and the benefits of the intervention? The participants were asked to participate in a seven-week creative arts and philosophical inquiry intervention. Once a week, a research assistant led a workshop using creative arts and group philosophical inquiry to discuss the topic of climate change and the emotions that can arise. Students participated in a brief individual interview after the intervention. The teacher also participated in an individual online interview.

Conditions

• Eco-anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Making room for climate emotions in the classroom	The "Making room for climate emotions in the classroom" program is designed to address emotions as students learn (formally or informally) about climate change. Each session features a drawing, photography, Lego sculpture, rock painting or collage/drawing workshop to address themes, explore emotions/feelings/experiences and initiate discussions on topics related to climate change.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-10-01
• Primary completion: 2024-01-19
• Completion: 2024-01-19
• First posted: 2025-01-17
• Last updated: 2025-08-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada