Expanding the Infant Achievements Intervention Through Community Partnerships

Child Development Clinical Trial

Official title:

Centering Community Partnerships to Facilitate Scaling Up of Infant Achievements for Community Implementation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06312358
• Other study ID #: IRB00408654
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2024
• Est. completion date: July 2024

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of the research study is to increase teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices in Early Head Start classrooms through the delivery of a professional development (PD) training intervention. The main questions that the study aims to answer are:

1. Does teacher participation in a PD intervention improve the use of evidence-based practices from pre- to posttest?

2. To what extent is the PD intervention feasible to implement in an established child care program?

3. To what extent is the PD program acceptable to teachers?

Participants will attend PD workshops and participate in content-related job-embedded coaching sessions during the implementation of the study.

Description:

The primary objective of the research study is to increase teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices in Early Head Start classrooms through the delivery of a professional development (PD) training intervention. It is hypothesized that teachers' fidelity to developmentally-appropriate practices, assessed through classroom observation measures, will increase following their participation in a comprehensive PD training intervention. The secondary hypotheses are that (1) the PD intervention is feasible to implement in an established child care program, and (2) the PD program is acceptable to teachers. Teacher participants will attend PD workshops, co-developed with community partners, and engage in follow-up job-embedded coaching sessions occurring weekly in their classrooms.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 15
• Est. completion date: July 2024
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants must currently work in an early childhood classroom serving children between 8-36 months of age.

• Participants must work in the role of a teacher or teacher assistant in an Early Head Start location.

• Participants must be willing to participate in two 60-90-minute trainings/workshops.

• Participants must be willing to participate in eight follow-up job-embedded coaching sessions

Exclusion Criteria:

• Works in a childcare setting outside of the Baltimore metro area

• Non-English speaking

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Child Development
• Developmental Delay
• Infant Development
• Language Development

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Building Capacity for Infant Achievements in Child Care
All teacher participants will be assigned to the professional development intervention consisting of an interactive workshop and weekly coaching sessions.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Kennedy Krieger Institute	Baltimore	Maryland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.	Johns Hopkins University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Classroom Quality (as assessed by scores on the TPITOS)	Classroom quality will be measured by total scores (ranging from 0-100%) on the Teaching Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Observation Scale (TPITOS) which assesses the extent to which an early childhood program's staff is fostering responsive, nurturing relationships with young children and promoting strong social-emotional development.	Change from baseline/pretest up to posttest, up to 16 weeks.