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Impact Trial of Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence

No phase Interventional Child Development Child Behavior

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: PBIS, HELM.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Child Development, Child Behavior. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
United States
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Overview

Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) problems occur frequently among elementary school students, dramatically impede student outcomes, and have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence based practices exist to address student SEB needs, prevent problems, and ensure academic success. However, the implementation of these programs in schools is frequently incomplete, uneven, and occurs with insufficient fidelity to ensure positive effects for students due to significant implementation barriers across multiple levels. The purpose of this Impact Trial is to test the effectiveness of the Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM) implementation strategy in school-wide implementation of a Tier 1 evidence-based practice (EBP) - Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).

Interventions

  • Behavioral PBIS
    Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based, multi-tiered, problem-solving, and team-based framework designed to build a continuum of supports to promote all students' social emotional behavioral health.
  • Other HELM
    Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM) is an implementation strategy for promoting building-level implementation leadership, implementation climate, and high-fidelity delivery of evidence-based practices

Primary outcome measures

  • PBIS Fidelity (Tiered Fidelity Inventory) [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
Secondary outcome measures (8)
  • Implementation Leadership: School Implementation Leadership Scale (SILS) [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
  • Implementation Climate: School Implementation Climate Scale (SICS) [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
  • Implementation Cost [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
  • Academic Engagement, Prosocial Behavior, and Problem Behavior: Modified Direct Behavior Rating (DBR) [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
  • Student Academic Outcomes [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
  • Student Disciplinary Incidents [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
  • Student Attendance Rates [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]
  • HELM Fidelity [Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, 12 months]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • School Districts: School districts in Washington State committed to implementing PBIS in its elementary schools
  • Educators: Educators working in a public elementary school within an enrolled school district.

Exclusion criteria

  • Schools with previous HELM exposure will be excluded

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study design

Allocation
Randomized
Model
Factorial
Masking
Single blind
Primary purpose
Health services research

Study locations

United States · 1 center
  • University of Washington — Seattle

Publications

  • Locke J, Williams NJ, Sridhar A, Ehrhart MG, Dopp A, Thirion M, Espeland C, Riddle B, Schmitz K, Hatch K, Buehler L, Lyon AR. Study protocol for testing the efficacy of the Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM) implementation strategy in elementary schools: a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial. Implement Sci. 2025 Apr 24;20(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s13 PMID 40275358

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06586723 · STUDY00020559

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗