Early prevention of conduct problems in preschool-children by promoting social and emotional competences with “Lubo from the universe”
Organizational Data
- DRKS-ID:
- DRKS00007173
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Date of registration in DRKS:
- 2014-11-12
- Last update in DRKS:
- 2015-04-09
- Registration type:
- Retrospective
Acronym/abbreviation of the study
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URL of the study
Brief summary in lay language
The objective of the study was to assess whether a universal, age adapted intervention program for regular kindergarten setting promotes social skilles, improves knowledge about adequate social behavior, improves prosocial and reduces problematic behavior in preschool children. The intervention is a classroom-based prevention program for preschool children focusing emotional literacy and regulation, perspective taking, friendship and communication skills and interpersonal problem solving in 34 sessions of 30-40 minutes duration - three times per week – in groups of nine to 14 preschool children. The assessment of social and emotional competences and behavior problems of the children took place directly before and after the intervention and 5 months later.
Brief summary in scientific language
The objective of the study was to assess whether a universal, age adapted intervention program for regular kindergarten setting promotes social skilles, improves knowledge about adequate social behavior, improves prosocial and reduces problematic behavior in preschool children. The study design was a cluster-randomized controlled trial (N = 221) with randomization by kindergartens with pre-, post- und follow-up measurement after 5 months analyzed in mixed models with random effects for cluster and adjustment for confounding. The intervention is a classroom-based prevention program for preschool children focusing emotional literacy and regulation, perspective taking, friendship and communication skills and interpersonal problem solving in 34 sessions of 30-40 minutes duration - three times per week – in groups of nine to 14 preschool children.
Health condition or problem studied
- Free text:
- prevention of F90-98
- ICD10:
- F90-F98 - Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
- Healthy volunteers:
- No Entry
Interventions, Observational Groups
- Arm 1:
- "Lubo from the universe" is a classroom-based social training for preschool children in kindergarten focusing social and emotional skills in 34 sessions of 30-40 minutes duration - three times per week – in groups of nine to 14 preschool children over a period of 4-6 months.
- Arm 2:
- The untrained control group got preschool education as usual.
Endpoints
- Primary outcome:
- Main outcome measures at posttest and follow-up: Social-cognitive problem solving strategies assessed by the child centered Wally Social Skills and Problem Solving Game (Wally; Webster-Stratton 1990).
- Secondary outcome:
- Further outcome measures: improvement of prosocial behavior assessed by the kindergarten teacher with Preschool Social Behavior Questionnaire (PSBQ; Tremblay et al., 1992) and reduction of problematic externalizing and internalizing behavior assessed by the kindergarten teacher with Preschool Social Behavior Questionnaire (PSBQ) and the Caregiver-Teacher Report Form (C-TRF).
Study Design
- Purpose:
- Prevention
- Allocation:
- Randomized controlled study
- Control:
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- Control group receives no treatment
- Phase:
- N/A
- Study type:
- Interventional
- Mechanism of allocation concealment:
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- Blinding:
- No
- Assignment:
- Parallel
- Sequence generation:
- No Entry
- Who is blinded:
- No Entry
Recruitment
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Reason if recruiting stopped or withdrawn:
- No Entry
Recruitment Locations
- Recruitment countries:
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- Germany
- Number of study centers:
- Multicenter study
- Recruitment location(s):
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- Other Kindertagesstätten Köln
Recruitment period and number of participants
- Planned study start date:
- No Entry
- Actual study start date:
- 2006-10-16
- Planned study completion date:
- No Entry
- Actual Study Completion Date:
- 2007-07-20
- Target Sample Size:
- 221
- Final Sample Size:
- 221
Inclusion Criteria
- Sex:
- All
- Minimum Age:
- 5 Years
- Maximum Age:
- 6 Years
- Additional Inclusion Criteria:
- All preschool-children, no selection
Exclusion Criteria
none
Addresses
Primary Sponsor
- Address:
- Universität zu KölnDepartment HeilpädagogikErziehungshilfe und sozial-emotionale EntwicklungsförderungKlosterstraße 79c50931 KölnGermany
- Telephone:
- No Entry
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http://www.uni-koeln.de
- Investigator Sponsored/Initiated Trial (IST/IIT):
- Yes
Contact for Scientific Queries
- Address:
- Universität OldenburgInstitut für Sonder- und RehabilitationspädagogikProf. Dr. Clemens HillenbrandAmmerländer Heerstraße 114-11826129 OldenburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0441-7982010
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http://www.uni-oldenburg.de
Contact for Public Queries
- Address:
- Universität OldenburgInstitut für Sonder- und RehabilitationspädagogikDr. phil. Annika SchellAmmerländer Heerstraße 114-11826129 OldenburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0441-7982333
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http://www.uni-oldenburg.de
Principal Investigator
- Address:
- Universität OldenburgInstitut für Sonder- und RehabilitationspädagogikProf. Dr. Clemens HillenbrandAmmerländer Heerstraße 114-11826129 OldenburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0441-7982010
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http://www.uni-oldenburg.de
Sources of Monetary or Material Support
Institutional budget, no external funding (budget of sponsor/PI)
- Address:
- Universität zu Köln, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Department Heilpädagogik, Lehrstuhl für Erziehungshilfe und sozial-emotionale EntwicklungsförderungKlosterstraße 79c50931 KölnGermany
- Telephone:
- No Entry
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http://www.uni-koeln.de
Ethics Committee
Address Ethics Committee
- Address:
- Telephone:
- No Entry
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Date of ethics committee application:
- No Entry
- Ethics committee number:
- No Entry
- Vote of the Ethics Committee:
- No Entry
- Date of the vote:
- No Entry
Further identification numbers
- Other primary registry ID:
- No Entry
- EudraCT Number:
- No Entry
IPD - Individual Participant Data
- Do you plan to make participant-related data (IPD) available to other researchers in an anonymized form?:
- No Entry
- IPD Sharing Plan:
- No Entry
Study protocol and other study documents
- Study protocols:
- No Entry
- Study abstract:
- No Entry
- Other study documents:
- No Entry
- Background literature:
- No Entry
- Related DRKS studies:
- No Entry
Publication of study results
- Planned publication:
- No Entry
- Publikationen/Studienergebnisse:
- Schell, Annika (2011). Die Förderung emotionaler und sozialer Kompetenzen bei Kindern im Vorschulalter. "Lubo aus dem All!" Entwicklung, Implementierung und Evaluation eines Trainingsprogramms zur Prävention von Gefühls- und Verhaltensstörungen. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt Forschung.
- Date of first publication of study results:
- No Entry
- DRKS entry published for the first time with results:
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Basic reporting
- Basic Reporting / Results tables:
- No Entry
- Brief summary of results:
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