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Filter by:This exploratory experiment is designed to determine the extent to which the socialization experiences and social, behavioral, and linguistic skills of preschoolers with language impairment (LI) can be improved. The investigators implement a peer-mediated intervention in inclusive preschool classrooms, randomly assigned to treatment (n=12) or control (n=13) conditions. A focal child is identified in each classroom, representing a child with LI (3 to 5 years of age) who exhibits the poorest pragmatic-language skills and highest level of social exclusion in the classroom. Over a 12-week period, the focal children will receive peer-mediated intervention from identified peers, who use strategies to engage the focal child socially during center time, as supported by a classroom facilitator (teacher, aide). Outcomes of interest include the overarching classroom social network and its embedded socialization processes (e.g., frequency of child-to-child interaction), the focal child's interactions with peers and exposure to peer talk, and the focal child's social, behavioral, and linguistic skills. The study employs state-of-the-art social network analyses to represent the classroom network at the child, dyad, and network level and is dynamically modeled over the academic year using advanced location-tracking technologies and voice-activated recorders to capture incoming and outgoing peer talk for the focal child. The investigators anticipate the results of this study to yield significant theoretical and scientific impact. Theoretically, the investigators propose that improved socialization experiences in the preschool classroom can disrupt the social exclusion and peer maltreatment experienced by children with LI, leading to accelerated growth in linguistic, social, and behavioral outcomes for children with LI.
This research will take the sophomore to senior students of Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as the research object to investigate the influence of dormitory atmosphere on the academic performance, scientific research achievements, and competition awards of dormitory members, analyze the path of straightforward-A student dormitory formation, and find out the current Weak links of college students' ideological and political education in dormitory culture construction, and explore how dormitory culture construction can promote the common progress of dormitory members
Emotional disorders are among the most common childhood mental health difficulties. The majority of adult emotional disorders begin before age 14 years. Most children and families across the population do not receive the proven evidence-based interventions available, particularly those from socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods and excluded, Black and Minoritised populations. Families from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, Black and minoritised communities can often feel judged, mistrustful, and blamed for their children's behavioural difficulties making them reluctant to engage in parenting supportEven when available, research shows that over one-third of parents receiving traditional specialist delivered evidence-based parenting do not gain the expected outcomes. Undertaking a group-based parenting intervention to help parents understand and deal with their children's anxiety issues. The aim of this study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a new parent-led parenting intervention, being a Parent Helping your Child (BAPHYC) that is intended to improve childhood anxiety and to use the findings to inform the planning and conduct of a definitive randomised control trial. Being a Parent- Helping your Child (BAPHYC) has been developed from two well-established evidence-based parenting programmes. It is a parent-led, group format manualised parenting programme intended to improve childhood anxiety in children aged 5-12 years consisting of eight two-hourly weekly sessions peer-facilitated by two trained parent group leaders. The particants of BAPHYC participants are mothers, fathers and other carers who have principal parenting responsibility for a child with anxiety. The specific study objectives are to: 1. Establish initial evidence about reach and engagement, delivery, acceptability and impact of BAPHYC 2. Establish the feasibility of proposed recruitment pathways and measure completion 3. Acquire a fine grain understanding of parents' experiences of the BAPHYC intervention, research procedures and themes arising from BAPHYC implementation. 4. Assess participant recruitment, engagement, intervention and measure completion, and intervention acceptability rates against a priori feasibility parameters. 5. Obtain data that will be used in future trial recruitment and planning.
The purpose of this study is to, through several aims, test the effectiveness of peer-driven intervention and inform methods to optimize engagement in research in people who use drugs (PWUD) in rural America.
This study evaluates the effect of peer facilitated monthly small group topic-based small group discussions on various themes common to physician training that pertain to aspects of humanism on rates of burnout. Attendance to these sessions and completion of the surveys is voluntary.