Promoting Success for Pre-K Teachers, Families and Children

January 7, 2021 updated by: NYU Langone Health

The current study examines the impact of ParentCorps in high-poverty Early Education Centers in New York City (NYC). The study is conducted within the context of the NYC Department of Education (DOE) Pre-K Thrive initiative. As part of this initiative, the Center for Early Childhood Health and Development (CEHD) at NYU Langone Health is implementing services to strengthen family engagement and support parents and teachers in building safe, nurturing and predictable environments for young children. Services include resources to support social emotional learning (SEL) and family engagement (FE) for all Pre-K for All (PKFA) programs and all PKFA families; Professional Learning to support the use of evidence-based SEL and FE practices for teachers and leaders from 350 PKFA programs; and ParentCorps programs for PKFA children and families in 50 PKFA programs (which is a subset of PKFA programs receiving Professional Learning). The current study evaluates the relative value of Thrive Professional Learning plus ParentCorps compared to Thrive Professional Learning.

This study will include 158 pre-K teachers (teachers and teaching assistants) across 23 Centers (12 Centers receiving Thrive Professional Learning plus ParentCorps, 11 Centers receiving Thrive Professional Learning only). All teachers in the 23 Centers will be invited to complete 2 self-report surveys over a two-year period. A sub-set of teachers will be randomly selected to participate in 2 interviews during this period. In addition, teachers in sites randomized to ParentCorps (12 Centers) will be invited to consent to the use of weekly implementation surveys, observational data and semi-structured interviews about experiences with implementation, collected as part of standard implementation practice of ParentCorps, for the purposes of this study.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

570

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • New York
      • New York, New York, United States, 10016
        • NYU Langone Health

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Teachers who are teaching staff in the Pre-K classrooms in the 23 Centers.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Only Pre-K teachers from the 23 Centers will be invited to participate in the study. Leaders and other school staff from the Centers are excluded from the study.
  • Family-level administrative data only on Pre-K families from the 12 Centers assigned to the Professional Learning plus ParentCorps condition will be obtained from the NYC DOE. Families in other sites are excluded from the request for family-level administrative data.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Thrive Professional Learning plus ParentCorps
Behavioral: Program for Parents (Parenting Program)
Program for Parents (Parenting Program) is implemented by a mental health professional and offered to groups of ~15 parents during the school day and during after school hours. The Program for Parents includes 2-hour sessions provided weekly over a 4-month period. The Program for Students (Friends School Social Emotional Learning Program) is implemented by classroom teachers in the classroom with 90 minute lessons and activities once a week for 14 weeks
Active Comparator: Thrive Professional Learning track
Behavioral: Thrive Professional Learning
Professional Learning is delivered to teachers in groups of 20-40 4 times a year over a two-year period. Professional Learning is delivered to leaders in groups of 20 - 40 three times a year over the same two-year period.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Teacher's knowledge measured using self- report surveys
Time Frame: 15 Months
15 Months
Teachers' social emotional competencies measured using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
Time Frame: 15 Months
The emotion regulation questionnaire is designed to assess individual differences in the habitual use of two emotion regulation strategies: cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression on a 5 point scale
15 Months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

NYU Langone Health

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Laurie Brotman, MD, NYU Langone Health

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 17, 2018

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 31, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

August 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 11, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 11, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

May 14, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

January 8, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 7, 2021

Last Verified

January 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 17-01812

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

Yes

IPD Plan Description

Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification (text, tables, figures, and appendices).

IPD Sharing Time Frame

Beginning 9 months and ending 36 months following article publication or as required by a condition of awards and agreements supporting the research.

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

The investigator who proposed to use the data will have access to the data. To gain access, data requestors will need to sign a data access agreement.

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • Study Protocol
  • Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP)

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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