Teachers and Parents as Partners During Middle School

Behavior Problem Clinical Trial

Official title:

Teachers and Parents as Partners During Middle School

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03298724
• Other study ID #: 2017-0872
• Secondary ID: R324B160043A1730
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 9, 2017
• Est. completion date: June 25, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

There are two aims of this study (a) to examine the effect of Teachers and Parents as Partners on student, parent, and teacher outcomes in middle school and (b) identify barriers and facilitators to implementing Teachers and Parents as Partners in middle school for students with behavior concerns.

Description:

Teachers and Parents as Partners will occur in a series of stages comprised of approximately four structured meetings over approximately 8 weeks. A Teachers and Parents as Partners consultant will meet together with a student's parent(s), teachers, other school personnel (as appropriate), and the student (as appropriate). The Teachers and Parents as Partners team will collaboratively address behavior problem solving objectives. Specific CBC objectives include: identifying strengths and specific behaviors of concern, specifying alternative prosocial behaviors, creating measurable behavior goals, co-constructing behavior intervention/support plans to address the target concerns, creating sustainable conditions to support plan implementation at home and school, and evaluating the plan to assess progress toward goals.

Treatment integrity in multiple dimensions (e.g., engagement, dosage, adherence) will be assessed at the two tiers of implementation (i.e., Teachers and Parents as Partners procedural integrity and behavior support plan implementation) to determine the extent to which procedures are implemented as designed.

During each structured meeting, Teachers and Parents as Partners consultants will inquire with parents, teachers, other school personnel, and students about barriers and facilitators to implementation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 31
• Est. completion date: June 25, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: June 25, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 8 Years to 16 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students will be eligible if they have scores in the "elevated" or "extremely elevated" risk categories on the parent and teacher version of the Behavior Assessment Scale for Children (BASC) 3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS). Parents, and primary teachers and school staff associated with an eligible student will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students who do not meet the inclusion criteria will be excluded from participation, which includes their parent(s), teachers, and other school personnel. Students also may not be eligible if they have mental health concerns that may not be appropriate for Teachers and Parents as Partners or a research project (e.g., some internalizing problems, students who pose an risk of harming themselves).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Behavior Problem
• Problem Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Teachers and Parents as Partners
A family-school partnership intervention to improve the home-school connection, parenting and teaching strategies, and child behavior outcomes.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison	Wisconsin

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Wisconsin, Madison	U.S. Department of Education

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Teacher report of student work completion (change over time)	Teacher reported student work completion	up to 32 weeks
Other	Monitoring Scale (change over time)	Parent Monitoring Knowledge of child activities	up to 32 weeks
Other	Problem solving competencies	Parent and teacher reported problem solving competencies	up to 32 weeks
Other	Parent-teacher relationship scale (change over time)	Parents and teacher report on the parent-teacher relationship	up to 32 weeks
Other	Behavior Intervention Rating Scale Revised	Parent, teacher, and student satisfaction with procedures	up to 32 weeks
Primary	Direct Behavior Ratings (change over time)	Parents and teachers provide ratings of child behavior	up to 32 weeks