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Child Behavior DisordersSC-PIESNCT05240222

Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy To Improve Teachers' Intention to Implement Evidence-Based Practices

A study testing Pre-implementation enhancement strategies (SC-PIES) in people with Child Behavior Disorders and Implementation Science, run by University of Iowa.

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Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Background: As the most common setting where youth access behavioral health services, the education sector frequently employs training and follow-up consultation as cornerstone implementation strategies to promote the uptake and use of evidence-based practices (EBPs), which are often insufficient to produce desired… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 22 to 70 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
What is being tested?
Pre-implementation enhancement strategies (SC-PIES)
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
43 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
22 Jul 2016to 1 Jul 2017
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 22 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Teachers who have no prior training about Proactive Classroom Behavioral Management Strategies (PCBM) targeting youth behaviors in an urban school district.
  • Teachers who have no prior experience in implementing Proactive Classroom Behavioral Management Strategies (PCBM) targeting youth behaviors in an urban school district.

Who cannot join

  • Teachers who have attended more than three training sessions about Proactive Classroom Behavioral Management Strategies (PCBM) targeting youth behaviors in an urban school district.
  • Teachers who have more than one month of experience in implementing Proactive Classroom Behavioral Management Strategies (PCBM) targeting youth behaviors in an urban school district.

About this study

Official title: A Theory-Informed Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy Targeting Mechanisms and Outcomes of Implementation: A Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: As the most common setting where youth access behavioral health services, the education sector frequently employs training and follow-up consultation as cornerstone implementation strategies to promote the uptake and use of evidence-based practices (EBPs), which are often insufficient to produce desired implementation outcomes (e.g., intervention fidelity) and changes in youth behavioral health outcomes (e.g., reduced externalizing behaviors). There is a need for theoretically-informed pre-implementation enhancement strategies (PIES) that increase the yield of training and follow-up consultation. Specifically, social-cognitive theory explicates principles to inform the design of strategy content and specific mechanisms of behavior change, such as intentions to implement (ITI), to target via a PIES that increase provider to more active implementation strategies. Methods: This triple-blind randomized controlled trial preliminarily examined the efficacy of a pragmatic PIES (SC-PIES) to improve the implementation of universal EBPs in the education sector. Participants were randomly assigned to the treatment (PIES) or active control condition (meeting with administrators). The investigators assessed participants' ITI, intervention fidelity, and youth behavioral health outcome before, immediately after, and six-week following treatment.

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  1. Background and study aims: As the most common setting where youth access behavioral health services, the education sector frequently employs training and follow-up consultation as cornerstone implementation strategies to promote the uptake and use of evidence-based practices (EBPs). However, these strategies alone are not sufficient to promote the desired implementation (e.g., intervention fidelity) and youth behavioral health outcomes (e.g., externalizing behaviors). Theory-informed pragmatic pre-implementation enhancement strategies (PIES) are needed to increase the yield of training and consultation. Specifically, social-cognitive theory explicates principles to inform the design of strategy content and specific mechanisms of behavior change (e.g., "intentions to implement"; ITI) to target to increase providers' responsiveness to training and consultation. This triple-blind parallel randomized controlled trial preliminarily examined the efficacy of a pragmatic PIES based on social-cognitive theories (SC-PIES) to improve the implementation and youth outcomes of universal EBPs in schools. Four aims will be examined:
  2. As compared to control, does the pre-implementation enhancement strategy based on social-cognitive theories (SC-PIES) significantly improve teachers' implementation intentions to implement PCBM practices at posttest after adjusting baseline and covariates?
  3. As compared to control, is receiving SC-PIES associated with significantly improved teachers' intervention fidelity and class-wide youth behavioral health outcome at the 6-week follow-up after adjusting for baseline and covariates?
  4. Does teachers' intention to implement mediate the association between study condition and intervention fidelity?
  5. Does teachers' intervention fidelity mediate the association between their intentions to implement and class-wide youth behavioral health outcomes?
  6. Who can participate? Any teacher who has no prior training about or experience of implementing Proactive Classroom Behavioral Management Strategies (PCBM) targeting youth behaviors in a school district. No restriction on age, gender, experience, or other demographic variables.
  7. What does the study involve? The participating teachers will be randomly assigned to either the treatment (SC-PIES) or active control condition (administrative meeting). The SC-PIES was delivered to teachers as a one-hour professional development session immediately before receiving specific training about evidence-based PCBM practices and subsequent follow-up consultation. Teachers in the active control condition will meet with their administrators to talk about their work irrelevant to SC-PIES or student behaviors. The investigators assessed teachers' ITI, intervention fidelity, and youth behavioral outcome (academic engagement as an incompatible behavior to externalizing disorders) before treatment, immediately after training, and six weeks afterward.
  8. What are the possible benefits and risks of participating? Teachers participating in this study will benefit from expert training and consultation to improve their intentions and skills to implement a set of EBPs to help their students' behavioral problems. No risks to participants were expected based on relevant literature in education and implementation science.
Being tested
Pre-implementation enhancement strategies (SC-PIES), Sham comparator
Keywords
Implementation Science, School Mental Health Services, Healthcare Providers, School Teachers
Medical subject headings
Child Behavior Disorders

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Pre-implementation enhancement strategies (SC-PIES)Behavioural

    The SC-PIES was delivered to teachers as a one-hour professional development session immediately before receiving specific training about evidence-based student behavioral management practices and follow-up consultation. SC-PIES content was grounded in three social-cognitive principles: (a) growth mindset, (b) saying-is-believing, and (c) commitment and consistency.

  • Sham comparatorOther

    Participants in the active control condition will meet with school administrators to talk about their work irrelevant to SC-PIES or student behaviors. The meeting lasted for the same duration as the SC-PIES at the same time as those in the treatment condition.

Study groups in NCT05240222
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Theory-informed pre-implementation enhancement strategies (SC-PIES)ExperimentalThe SC-PIES was delivered to teachers as a one-hour professional development session immediately before receiving specific training about evidence-based student behavioral management practices and subsequent follow-up consultation. The content of SC-PIES was grounded in three social-cognitive principles: (a) growth mindset, (b) saying-is-believing, and (c) commitment and consistency.
Receives: Behavioral: Pre-implementation enhancement strategies (SC-PIES)
Active controlSham comparatorParticipants in the active control condition will meet with school administrators to talk about their work irrelevant to SC-PIES or student behaviors. The meeting lasted for the same duration as the SC-PIES at the same time as those in the treatment condition.
Receives: Other: Sham comparator

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change from Baseline Teachers' Intentions to Implement (ITI) at 3 Days

    The Modified Intentions to Use Scale was adopted to assess the change in teachers' intentions to implement from baseline to immediate post-test. The scale is originally developed from research on practitioners' intention to adhere to measurement-based care and is consistent with the recommendations for assessing behavioral intentions based on the theory of planned behavior (Godin \& Kok, 1996). The scale consists of five items on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from "greatly disagree" to "greatly agree". The items were modified to specifically assess teachers' intentions to implement EBPs. The scale showed acceptable reliability and validity in prior research.

    Measured: Three days following the baseline test of teachers' intentions to implement

  2. Change from Baseline Teachers' Intervention Fidelity at 6 weeks.

    A team of trained professionals, who were blinded to the random assignment results, conducted structured observations to assess the intervention fidelity, which is operationalized in this study as "adherence to core components of the classroom management practices". The data collection took place at pre-test and 6-week follow-up to allow enough time to detect and compare changes in intervention fidelity. First, during core instructional times, trained observers observed two occasions at pre-test and 6-week follow-up to code the presence or absence of the core components of the evidence-based practices. Immediately following the observations, these observers completed a fidelity rating rubric, which was created by operationalizing three core components of each PCBMs such that observers could reliably observe and rate them. The average of the observation coding and the rubric scores represents each teacher's fidelity.

    Measured: Six weeks following the baseline test of teachers' intervention fidelity

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Change from Baseline Students' Academic Engaged Time (AET) at 6 weeks

    AET is defined as "any instance where youths are attending to instruction, watching the teacher or speaker, or concentrating on their classwork". This study will use Direct Behavior Ratings (DBRs) for academic engaged time (AET) with which a teacher observes a youth's AET throughout a predetermined interval. Based on the literature of DBRs, teacher-completed DBRs have strong correlations to Structured Direct Observation in assessing AET (Sanetti, 2009). The DBRs will be completed at pre-test and 6-week follow-up. For comparability across classrooms, each teacher completes DBRs during the reading/language arts block at the same time each day of the week for five randomly selected youths, whose results will be then averaged for that class. This approach has demonstrated adequate reliability and validity to capture class-wide AET in education literature (Sanetti, 2009).

    Measured: Six weeks following the baseline test of students' AET

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted15 Feb 2022
  2. Study start22 Jul 2016
  3. Primary completion20 May 2017
  4. Study completion1 Jul 2017

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
This is a triple-blind parallel randomized controlled trial. Specifically, teachers from a diverse urban district were recruited and randomly assigned to either the treatment (SC-PIES) or active control condition (administrative meeting). Based on the condition assigned, teachers received the SC-PIES (or met with administrators) before EBP training. The investigators assessed teachers' ITI, intervention fidelity, and youth behavioral outcome (academic engagement as an incompatible behavior to externalizing disorders) before treatment, immediately after training, and six weeks afterward.
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
43 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05240222
Sponsor's protocol ID
PIES001
Acronym
SC-PIES
Status last verified
Feb 2022
First submitted
10 Jan 2022
Last updated
15 Feb 2022
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: The de-identified datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are available in the Open Science Framework repository, \[osf.io/d5t4m/\].

Publications

  • Godin G, Kok G. The theory of planned behavior: a review of its applications to health-related behaviors. Am J Health Promot. 1996 Nov-Dec;11(2):87-98. doi: 10.4278/0890-1171-11.2.87.

    PubMed 10163601
  • Sanetti LM, Kratochwill TR. Toward developing a science of treatment integrity: Introduction to the special series. School Psychology Review. 2009 Dec 1;38(4):445.

  • Zhang Y, Cook CR, Azad GF, Larson M, Merle JL, Thayer J, Pauls A, Lyon AR. A Pre-Implementation Enhancement Strategy to Increase the Yield of Training and Consultation for School-Based Behavioral Preventive Practices: a Triple-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial. Prev Sci. 2023 Apr;24(3):552-566. doi: 10.1007/s11121-022-01464-3. Epub 2022 Nov 11.

    PubMed 36367633

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Pre-implementation enhancement strategies (SC-PIES) in people with Child Behavior Disorders and Implementation Science, run by University of Iowa.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Feb 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Change from Baseline Teachers' Intentions to Implement (ITI) at 3 Days (time frame: Three days following the baseline test of teachers' intentions to implement). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05240222, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 15 Feb 2022; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 26 Oct 2026.

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