Assessment of a Drama Workshop Program for Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents

Learning Disabilities Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assessment of a Drama Workshop Program for Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01426451
• Other study ID #: CIHR/IRSC-229984
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 25, 2011
• Last updated: March 26, 2014
• Start date: November 2011

Study information

• Verified date: March 2014
• Source: McGill University Health Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a drama workshop program for immigrant and refugee youth is effective in reducing impairment in high school students presenting learning difficulties.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 464
• Est. primary completion date: December 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 12 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All students who are assigned to special classes based on behavioural or learning problems in grades 7-10 in the participating schools will participate in the program and be included in the study if they and their parents consent to in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

• More severe cases

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Learning Disabilities

Intervention

Other:
• Group tutoring program
Academic in-class intervention that focuses on differentiated academic instruction and improved overall academic adjustment. In each classroom assigned to the tutorship intervention, two academic resource assistants will provide weekly in-class support to students for the same length of time than the drama workshop (75 minutes, once a week), with the teacher present in the classroom.
• Theatre workshops
The theatre expression workshops will run for 12 weeks, with one 75-minute workshop per week. They will be incorporated into the regular class timetable and will be run by the two members of the intervention team who have training in theatre and psychology, and the homeroom teacher, whose level of direct involvement will increase gradually as he or she becomes familiar with the workshops.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	École Antoine-de-St-Exupéry	Montréal	Quebec
Canada	École La Dauversière	Montréal	Quebec
Canada	École La Voie	Montréal	Quebec
Canada	École Lucien-Pagé	Montréal	Quebec
Canada	École Saint-Luc	Montréal	Quebec

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
McGill University Health Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in impairment of emotional and behavioural symptoms reported by youth	Impairment of emotional and behavioural symptoms will be assessed by the Impact Supplement of the SDQ completed by the adolescents. The SDQ is a 25-item Likert scale assessing emotional and behavioural symptoms. This questionnaire includes an impairment measure that enquires about symptoms in terms of chronicity, distress, social impairment, and burden for others.	T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention	No
Secondary	Change in emotional and behavioural symptoms	Will be assessed by the SDQ global scores (teachers and youths reports).	T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention	No
Secondary	Change in impairment	Measured by the SDQ (teacher report).	T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention	No
Secondary	Change in relations with peers	Will be assessed using the Adolescent Friendship Inventory (AFI) designed by Rubenstein et al. (1989). This 30-item instrument requires the adolescent to indicate to what degree, on a scale of 1 to 5, the feeling expressed by the statement corresponds to his or her personal feelings in relation to his or her network of peers.	T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention	No
Secondary	Change in school performance	Will be assessed on the basis of the first and the last report cards of the school year (T0 and T1) and with the first report card of the subsequent year (T2). We will consider students' grades in mathematics and French.	T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention	No