Enhancing Team Effectiveness for a Collaborative School-based Intervention for ADHD
Study Overview
Status
Status
Conditions
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study Type
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Enrollment
Phase
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
Study Contact
- Name: Lilliana Conradi, BA
- Phone Number: 16196513154
- Email: lconradi@health.ucsd.edu
Study Locations
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California
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San Diego, California, United States, 92123
- Recruiting
- IN STEP Children's Mental Health Center
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Contact:
- Lilliana R Conradi
- Phone Number: 16196513154
- Email: lconradi@health.ucsd.edu
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Youth ages of 7-11 years (2-5th grade) who are attending a participating school
- Child referred by a school mental health provider (SMHP) with apparent ADHD-related problems,
- ≥6 symptoms (item score ≥2) of Inattention or Hyperactivity-Impulsivity on the pooled parent and teacher Child Symptom Inventory
- ≥3 on the Impairment Rating Scale by parent and teacher (cross-situational impairment)
- Caretaker and teacher consent to participate in treatment and child provides assent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- No presence of conditions that are incompatible with this study's treatment including: severe visual or hearing impairment, severe language delay or intellectual impairment, psychosis, pervasive developmental disorder
- Child is in an all-day special education classroom (children in these classrooms are frequently receiving intensive behavior modification programs such that the intervention would be expected to require modification for use in these settings)
- Parent/primary caregiver or child does not read or speak English or Spanish. Note: Participants will need to be able to read/speak English or Spanish because all measures are in English or Spanish, and the intervention will be conducted in English or Spanish. Parents will be given the option of having a research staff member assist them in completing the assessment measures.
- Children planning to change (start or stop) psychotropic medication Note: Children taking medication will be required to meet all entry criteria, including impairment criteria, thus indicating a need for the intervention. Children taking medication for attention or behavior are eligible as long as their medication regimens are stable.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Number of Arms
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / ArmParticipant Group / Arm |
Intervention / TreatmentIntervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Standard Collaborative Life Skills Program Implementation
CLS is a school-delivered intervention coordinating three empirically-supported approaches: teacher consultation and a daily behavior report card, behavioral parent training and child skills training.
The three components are integrated over a 10-12 week period to improve symptoms and functional impairment among youth with ADHD.
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CLS is a school-delivered intervention coordinating three empirically-supported approaches: teacher consultation and a daily behavior report card, behavioral parent training and child skills training.
The three components are integrated over a 10-12 week period to improve symptoms and functional impairment among youth with ADHD.
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Experimental: Team-Enhanced Collaborative Life Skills Program Implementation
We will integrate three team-based implementation strategies to enhance team effectiveness in CLS, including Team Charters, Team Communication Training via Student Handoff Protocols, and Team Performance Monitoring.
These interventions have been shown to improve cognitive (e.g., shared mental models) and affective ((e.g., trust, collective efficacy) team-based emergent states and enhance team-based processes, such as communication and coordination.
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We will integrate three team-based implementation strategies to enhance team effectiveness in CLS, including Team Charters, Team Communication Training via Student Handoff Protocols, and Team Performance Monitoring.
These interventions have been shown to improve cognitive (e.g., shared mental models) and affective ((e.g., trust, collective efficacy) team-based emergent states and enhance team-based processes, such as communication and coordination.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Acceptability, Feasibility, and Appropriateness of Intervention Measure
Time Frame: Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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This 12-item measure will be completed by parents, teachers, and SMHPs at post-intervention to assess the extent to which the CLS intervention, Team Charters, Handoff protocols, and Team Progress Monitoring and Assessment procedures are appealing, liked, and welcomed in their setting (acceptability); fitting, suitable, and applicable in their setting (appropriateness); possible and doable in their setting (feasible).
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Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Intervention Fidelity
Time Frame: Weekly during 3-month long intervention
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Fidelity monitoring observation checklists will be adapted in Year 1 from those previously developed for CLS to measure fidelity of SMHP training in standard CLS and CLS-T, as well as SMHP implementation of each component of the CLS and the TBIS.
A separate measure of SMHP competence in executing the treatment will be adapted from the CLS Implementation Quality Form used in previous trials, which will be completed by the trainer after each "live" observation.
Items assess clarity of skill presentation, thoroughness of homework review, use of practical examples, and effectiveness of handout review rated by the trainer on a 1- 5 scale (from 1=not at all to 5= most).
The child-group version includes items such as use of effective commands, prompts and praise, and clarity of skill presentation rated by the trainer on a 1-5 scale (from 1=not at all to 5=most).
A second research team member (blinded to group assignment) will rate 15% of sessions to estimate inter-rater reliability.
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Weekly during 3-month long intervention
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DBRC Completion
Time Frame: Weekly during 3-month long intervention
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The proportion of school days the school eDBRC was implemented each week will be calculated based on the number of completed eDBRCs, divided by the overall count of possible school days during the week, as we have done in previous trials.13
School holidays (coded from the online student calendar for each school), child absence, special school events/field trips and substitute teacher days (when noted on the eDBRC) will not be included in the overall count of possible school days during the week.
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Weekly during 3-month long intervention
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Parenting Skill Use Diary
Time Frame: Daily during 3-month long intervention
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This 2-item measures assesses parent's use of behavioral strategies in responses to adaptive, as well as maladaptive child behaviors.
It is completed in a daily diary format.
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Daily during 3-month long intervention
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System Usability Scale (SUS)
Time Frame: Post-Intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Parents, teachers, and SMHPs will completed this 10-item agnostic scale assessing product usability, with SUS scores above 80 indicating good usability.57-59
SUS will be completed by SMHPs, teachers, and parents after pre-intervention focus groups, and at the post-intervention assessment of the randomized trial to assess usability of each TBIS.
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Post-Intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Sustained Use of EBP Strategies
Time Frame: Follow-up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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SMHPs, parents, and teachers will each complete customized measures that query whether they are still using the skills learned in CLS during the subsequent school year, with new students/teachers.
The scales will be adapted from scales used in previous clinical trials evaluating CLS and will include questions about use of the TBIS.
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Follow-up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Homework Problems Checklist
Time Frame: Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), Post-intervention (immediately following intervention), Follow-up (6 months after the end of intervention).
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Parents will complete the HPC, which consists of 20 items rated on a 4-point scale and has evidence of excellent internal consistency (αs between .90 and .92. assess child problems related to homework.75
(Langberg et al., 2010), which includes 20 items rated on a 4-point scale.
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Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), Post-intervention (immediately following intervention), Follow-up (6 months after the end of intervention).
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Academic Competency Evaluation Scale
Time Frame: Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Teachers will complete the Academic Enablers scales measures behaviors that support adaptive learning in the classroom.
This subscale has evidence of excellent reliability.
which has excellent psychometric properties including test-retest reliability (r=.96) and internal consistency (α=.98) for 3rd - 5th grade children
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Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Children's Organizational Skills Scales
Time Frame: Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Parents and teachers will complete the COSS includes subscales assessing organizational skills, management of materials/supplies, and task planning skills (parent=58 items, teacher=35 items), with items are rated on a 4-point scale.
The parent and teacher versions both have excellent internal consistency (αs=.98 and .97,
respectively), test-retest reliability (rs = .99
and .94,
respectively), and evidence of structural, convergent, and discriminant validity.
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Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory-5
Time Frame: Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Parents and teachers will complete the CASI-5 includes 78 items assessing DSM-5 symptoms of ADHD ODD, CD, Mood, and Anxiety.
It has demonstrated adequate reliability (rs=.66-.78) and internal consistency (αs=.90-.94).
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Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Social Skills Improvement System
Time Frame: Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Parents and teachers will complete the Social Skills scale (standard scores) will be used in analyses.
The SSIS has excellent psychometric properties, including high internal consistency for the parent and teacher versions (.94 and .95,
respectively) adequate test-retest reliability (.84 and .81
for teacher and parent versions respectively) and has been sensitive to CLS in previous trials
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Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Impairment Rating Scale
Time Frame: Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Parents and teachers will report about students' functioning (e.g., academic, behavioral, peer, etc.) on the Impairment Rating Scale using a 6-point scale (0 = "needs no treatment" to 6 = "definitely requires treatment") with ratings of > 2 indicating impairment.
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Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Other Outcome Measures
Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Card-Sorting Task
Time Frame: Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Card sorting elicits individual mental models to understand how participants structure their knowledge.
In open card sorts participants are provided with a set of key concepts and asked to sort them into categories.
Each participant then creates a label for each category.
In closed card sorts, participants are similarly given a set of key concepts, but participants are given pre-defined categories that each concept must be sorted into.
Within team environments, card sorting can be used to examine the degree to which team members are thinking about key concepts in a similar manner (e.g., team mental models) by comparing the categories and sorted content across members.
For this proposal, the card sorting task will assess CLS/CLS-T team mental models by examining perceptions of member roles, responsibilities, and goals across CLS/CLS-T team members.
In doing so, the concepts contained in the card sort will be representative of specific CLS roles, task responsibilities, and goals.
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Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Working Alliance Inventory Short Form (WAI-SR)
Time Frame: Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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The WAI-SR will be completed by parents, teachers, and SMHPs at post-intervention.
The WAI-SR is a 12-item version of the Horvath and Greenberg's (1989) Working Alliance Inventory.
Each of the subscales will measure proposed mechanisms, while the overall scale will measure proposed outcomes.
The 4-item Goal subscale will be used to determine team member agreement on goals for CLS daily behavior plan (goal specification).
The 4-item Bond subscale will be used to determine the personal bond between CLS team members (trust).
The overall scale score assesses the collaborative relationship between relevant parties; consensus and willingness by all to engage in and do the work that leads to improvement.
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Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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McAllister Affect-Based Trust
Time Frame: Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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This 5-item scale will be completed by parents, teachers, and SMHPs at post-intervention.
It assesses perceptions of affect-based trust amongst CLS members.
Items center around individual's perceptions that team members can share ideas freely, that team members listen to one another, that team members care for one another, and that team members are invested in working well with one another.
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Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Collaboration & Satisfaction About Care Decisions (CSACD)
Time Frame: Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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The 6-item collaboration subscale will be completed by parents, teachers, and SMHPs at post-intervention to assesses collaboration, shared responsibilities for planning, open communication, and coordination.
The 3-item satisfaction subscale assesses satisfaction with the decision making process, and satisfaction with the decision itself.
Although originally developed about care decisions for intensive care patients, it has since been used to measure collaboration and satisfaction with treatment planning plans associated with the proposed team-based strategies.
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Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Cohesion scale of Teamwork Quality
Time Frame: Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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This 10-item subscale from the Teamwork Quality measures (Hoegl & Gemuenden, 2001) will be completed by parents, teachers, and SMHPs at post-intervention.
It measures team members' commitment to working together and remaining part of the team.
It has excellent internal consistency (α = .97,
and includes items, such as "It was important to members of our team to be part of this project."
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Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Situation Awareness Rating Technique (SART)
Time Frame: Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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The SART (Taylor, 1990) is a multidimensional self-rating measure of situation awareness.
It includes ten dimensions, rated on a 7-point scale to measure operator SA.
Dimensions include familiarity of the situation, focusing of attention, information quantity, information quality, instability of the situation, concentration of attention, complexity of the situation, variability of the situation, arousal, and spare mental capacity.
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Post-intervention (immediately following intervention)
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Parent Strategy Use Questionnaire
Time Frame: Weekly during 3-month long intervention
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Each week, parents will complete the 5-item Parent Strategy Use Questionnaire, a scale used in previous CLS trials to assess the frequency (rated on a 5-point scale) of parent's self-rated use of specific strategies taught during the previous BPT sessions over the past week.
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Weekly during 3-month long intervention
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Services for Children and Adolescents Parent Interview
Time Frame: Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Parents and teachers will report about students' functioning (e.g., academic, behavior, peer, etc.) on the Impairment Rating Scale (Fabiano et al., 2006) using a 6-point scale (0 = "needs no treatment" to 6 = "definitely requires treatment") with ratings of > 2 indicating impairment.
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Pre-intervention (immediately before intervention begins), post-intervention (immediately following intervention), and follow up (6 months after the end of intervention)
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Sponsor
Collaborators
Collaborators
Investigators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Miguel Villodas, Ph.D., San Diego State University
- Principal Investigator: Linda Pfiffner, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
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Other Study ID Numbers
Other Study ID Numbers
- 804142
- P50MH126231 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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