Power of Growth - Digitally Assisted Intervention for the Early Childhood Educators' Self-efficacy Teamwork and Children's Behavioral Challenges.
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: FinnPog.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: ECE Teachers Self Efficacy, Team Work, Positive Pedagogy, Behavior Problems. Basic parameters: No limits · 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
- Finland
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Power of Growth RCT Study
Overview
This is an RCT study investigating the efficacy of digital intervention focusing on enhancing positive directing skills for teams of early childhood education (ECE) professionals. The aims are to study 1) changes in the ECEs' self-assessed self-efficacy experience in the intervention group compared to the control group; 2) changes in the behavioral challenges of the children in the ECEs' groups assessed by the parents in the intervention group compared to the control group; and 3) changes in the ECEs' guidance methods in the intervention group compared to the control group. We will also study changes in the wellbeing of ECEs and teamwork in both treatment groups. The sample size will consist of approximately 64 teams of ECEs. Hence, altogether there will be approximately 200 study subjects. The intervention is aimed at ECE teams and its goal is to strengthen and unify the team positive guidance practices in children's groups. The intervention includes self-learning material and teams online coaching in which the entire team participates simultaneously. The self-material includes 360 videos of everyday situations in the daycare and videos can be watched with VR glasses. The participants practice the skills systematically with their group of children. The duration of the intervention is approximately 12 weeks and team coaching are carried out approximately every two weeks.
Interventions
- Behavioral FinnPog
The aim of the study is to find out how intervention affects the early childhood educators' self-efficacy teamwork and the changes in children's behavioral challenges. This RCT study has two parallel groups where teams of the daycare centres are randomized to intervention or control group. The research data is collected using electronic surveys and interviews.
Primary outcome measures
- ECE Teacher Self Efficacy [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
Secondary outcome measures (8)
- Perceptions of Team work [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
- Behaviour problems of the child [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
- Burn out [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
- Confidence in ability to deal with child´s challenging behavior [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
- Work satisfaction [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
- Perceived skills [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
- Questionnaire on interaction skills: attuned interaction and guidance [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
- The workload of guiding the child group [Time frame: From baseline to 3, 6 months after randomisation]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
Participant is working in a daycare centre team that is participating to the study. Sufficient knowledge in Finnish language.
Exclusion criteria
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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
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Finland · 2 centers
- Early Childhood Education — Municipalities
- Research Centre of Child Psychiatry — Turku
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06856408 · PoG-001