Jump Start on the Go: Improving Resiliency and the Social-Emotional Development of At-Risk Preschool Children

Jump Start on the Go: Improving Resiliency and the Social-Emotional Development of At-Risk Preschool Children in Childcare Centers Using a Mobile Application

The purpose of this study is to test the Jump Start on the Go (JS Go), an app-based program and see how helpful it is at improving resiliency and behavior support within childcare settings.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Jump Start on the Go; Behavioral: Jump Start Plus Coronavirus Support

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 67
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
      • University of Miami

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Centers Inclusion Criteria:

1. Centers must have >30 children ages 2-to-5
2. Center must serve low income families
3. Centers must reflect the ethnic diversity of the Miami Dade County Public School System (60% Hispanic, 20% Non-Hispanic Black, 20% Non-Hispanic White).

Participants Inclusion Criteria:

1. Participants must speak English or Spanish or Creole
2. Parents must have a child enrolled in the childcare center that is participating in the study.
3. Children ages 2-5: Parent reported data (name, Date of Birth, behaviors)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. any participants who do not speak English or Spanish or Creole.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Jump Start on the Go Group; Participants will be in this group for a total of up to 12 months. These participants will receive the intervention via a mobile app.	Behavioral: Jump Start on the Go; Centers will receive the Jump Start On The Go mental health program via a mobile app. This will entail receiving 12-24 mental health consultation sessions in which a licensed mental health consultant will use a mobile app that will provide directors and teachers with access to information such as videos, infographics, and an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot on how to work with children with challenging behaviors. Participants will receive the intervention once per week for up to 1 hour.
Active Comparator: Jump Start plus Coronavirus Support Group; Participants will be in this group for a total of up to 12 months.	Behavioral: Jump Start Plus Coronavirus Support; The Jump Start Plus Coronavirus Support intervention is a resiliency program that provides behavior management and safety programs administered weekly via zoom.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in classroom practices as measured by Health Environment Rating Scale	The Health Environment Rating Scale is a measure with a range of score from 0 to 70 with higher score indicating better classroom practices.	Baseline, 2 months after baseline, and up to 1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in child behaviors as measured by Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)	The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire is a total difficulties score that ranges from 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating less child behavior concerns.	Baseline and up to 1 year
Change in resiliency as measured by Brief Resiliency Coping Scale	The Brief Resiliency Coping Scale is a total score that ranges from 4 to 20 with higher scores indicating higher levels of coping	Baseline and up to 1 year
Change in stress as measured by Childcare Worker Job Stress Index	The Childcare Worker Job Stress Index is a total score that ranges from 22 to 110 with higher scores indicating higher levels of stress	Baseline and up to 1 year
Change in stress as measured by Everyday Stressors Index	The Everyday Stressors Index is a total score that ranges from 0 to 80 with higher scores indicating higher levels of stress.	Baseline and up to 1 year
Change in satisfaction as measured by Teacher Opinion and Satisfaction survey	The Teacher Opinion survey is a measure with a range of score from 12 to 44 with higher score indicating better self-efficacy as it relates to teaching practices.	Baseline and up to 1 year
Change in child behaviors as measured by Devereux Early Childhood Assessments (DECA)	The Devereux Early Childhood Assessments is a measure with a range of score from 0 to 100 with higher score on Behavior Concerns indicating more problem behaviors.	Baseline, 2 months after baseline, and up to 1 year
Mobile Application satisfaction as measured by the Mobile Application Rating Scale	The Mobile Application Rating Scale is a measure with a range of scores from 29-145 with higher score indicating better engagement, functionality, aesthetics, and information quality, as well as application subjective quality.	2 months after baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Miami
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Ruby Natale, PhD, PsyD, University of Miami

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 10, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Actual): June 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 15, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 15, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): April 18, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 14, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 11, 2025
• Last Verified: August 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 20231026

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