Organizational Skill Training (OST) in Schools

A School-Based Program to Improve Children's Organizational Skills

The primary aim of this project is to address the need for an effective school-based intervention for elementary school-aged students with Organization, Time Management, and Planning (OTMP) deficits by adapting an evidence-supported clinic-based intervention so that it can be implemented in school settings. Investigators are learning to adapt an individual, clinic based program (OST-C) for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) to children with OTMP problems. Investigators will be collecting data . To this end, investigators will be collecting data on implementation (such as feasibility and acceptability), program development (what changes to the individual OST-C program were made based on findings during this study) and limited outcome data (repeated measures collection and pre- and post-treatment collection on a small sample, no control group).

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Organizational Skills Training (OST) Intervention

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 35
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10016
      • New York University School of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 8 years to 11 years (CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children will be recruited based on their parents' interest level in having them participate in a program to improve their organizational skills.
• Investigators will consider feedback from their 3rd to 5th grade general education or inclusion classroom teacher based on OTMP problems difficulties that interfere with functioning (difficulty in morning routine or end-of-day packing up routine, a high percentage of incomplete or missing assignments, messy desk or Seat Sack).
• Investigators will not use specific cutoffs on normed measures for determining eligibility based on these difficulties, as the intention is to develop a program that can be easily disseminated.
• Availability to attend twice-weekly sessions with the OTMP trainer either during the school day (during a time when they would not be pulled from academic content) or during after-school hours.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children with Mental Retardation will not participate in the study, due to the difficulty they would likely have understanding the content of the sessions.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Organizational Skills Training (OST) Intervention; To improve children's organizational functioning, OST focuses on four key skills.; Tracking Assignments; Managing Materials; Time Management; Task Planning	Behavioral: Organizational Skills Training (OST) Intervention; Other Names: Organization, Time Management, and Planning (OTMP)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in scoring on Children's Organizational Skills Scale		10 Weeks
Change in score on Organizational Skills Scale-Parent (COSS-P)		10 Weeks
Change in score on Children's Organizational Skills Scale- (COSS-C)		10 Weeks
Change in score on Organizational Skills Scale-Teacher (COSS-T) Versions COSS-P, COSS-C, and COSS-T	be used to assess OTMP functioning at home and at school	10 Weeks
Change in Homework Problem Checklist (HPCL) Score	The HPCL (Anesko, Schoiock, Ramirez, & Levine, 1987) was designed to assess various aspects of homework performance. Parents are requested to rate each of 20 homework problems on a scale from 0 = never a problem to 3 = very often a problem	10 Weeks
Change in score on Academic Progress Report (APR)	The APR (Abikoff et al, 2013) assesses proficiency in six academic subjects relative to standard expectations (1=Well below standard expected at this time of year; 3=At standard; 5=Well above standard). The sum of ratings across the six academic subjects is the unit of analysis. Reliability is acceptable (coefficient alpha = .84), and this measure is sensitive to OST treatment effects (Abikoff et al., 2013).	10 Weeks
Change in score on Consumer Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ)	To assess satisfaction with treatment, and to serve as an index of treatment credibility, a consumer satisfaction questionnaire adapted from McMahon and Forehand (2003), will be completed by parents and teachers at post-treatment. Items (rated 1-7) tap overall satisfaction with treatment, perceived improvement of the child on the problems of concern to parent or teacher respectively, and evaluation of treatment providers.	10 Weeks
Measures of Feasibility	Investigators will gather feasibility data based on completed activities during the study. They will record information about treatment training, number of groups run, number of students per group, scheduling challenges, number of meetings/contacts OST-S trainers had with teachers and parents, materials support, or any other items related to implementing the program will be recorded for the duration of the study.	10 Weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Howard B Abikoff, MD, New York University Medical School

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): June 28, 2016
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): June 28, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 21, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 21, 2016
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): January 26, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): February 5, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 3, 2020
• Last Verified: February 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Organization, Time Management, and Planning (OTMP)
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
• Other Study ID Numbers: 14-02090

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No