Parenting BehaviorNCT06908330
Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health
A study testing Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program in people with Parenting Behavior and Social Emotional Competence, run by Oregon Social Learning Center at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School (SSTRS) Program can help children entering kindergarten and their families. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 4 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Parenting Behavior, Social Emotional Competence, Internalizing Behavior
- What is being tested?
- Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 150 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Feb 2026to Nov 2028
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
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 4 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- child entering kindergarten in school that is participiating in the study
Who cannot join
- being in a classroom in which the teacher or EA was previously trained in another closely-related treatment protocol
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
United States1 site
Oregon Social Learning Center
Eugene, Oregon, 97401
Katherine Pears, Ph.D., 5414852711, katherinep@oslc.org
Deena Scheidt, 5414852711, deenas@oslc.org
About this study
Official title: Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health: A Pilot Test of the Strengthening Social-Emotional Skills for Relating and Thriving at School (SSTRS) Program
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School (SSTRS) Program can help children entering kindergarten and their families. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1) Do children who participate in SSTRS have better social-emotional skills and mental health? and 2) Do parents who participate in SSTRS have more positive parenting skills and involvement in their children's learning?
Researchers will compare the SSTRS Program to the regular kindergarten curriculum without SSTRS to see if being in SSTRS helps children to have better mental health and parents to have better parenting skills.
Read more
Kindergarteners will have daily SSTRS lessons in their kindergarten classes for 8 weeks.
Their parents will watch videos and attend group meetings with other parents and answer questions about their own and their children's behaviors and mental health
- Conditions
- Parenting Behavior, Social Emotional Competence, Internalizing Behavior, Externalizing Behavior
- Being tested
- Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School ProgramBehavioural
The SSTRS Program is a developmentally-tailored, school-based preventive intervention focusing on children and their parents at the critical transition to kindergarten to prevent deficits in children's social-emotional skills-which are known transdiagnostic risk factors for a range of mental health problems. Children receive SSTRS programming during their regular school day for eight weeks at the beginning of the school year. Parents receive SSTRS programming via informational videos and virtual parenting groups during the same time period.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| SSTRS group | Experimental | These participants will participate in the SSTRS intervention. Receives: Behavioral: Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program |
| Services as Usual | No intervention | These participants will receive kindergarten programming as usual. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire
Parent and teacher report on the 25-item measure yields five subscales: Emotional Symptoms Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Conduct Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Hyperactivity Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems) , Peer Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), and Prosocial Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate better social skills). A Total Difficulties Score can also be derived by summing all of the scales except the Prosocial Scale resulting in a score raniging from 0 to 40 with higher scores denoting greater difficulties.
Measured: Parents will complete the measure at baseline, 2 months post-baseline at the end of the intervention and 9 months post-baseline. Teachers will complete the measure at 9 months post-baseline.
Office discipline referrals
These are records of referrals for serious behaviors within the school setting. They are administartive records.
Measured: These will be collected at 9 months post-baseline.
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted3 Apr 2025
- Study startFeb 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completionAug 2028 (estimated)
- Study completionNov 2028 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Parenting BehaviorStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
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
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 150 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Oregon Social Learning Center
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Katherine C. Pears, Oregon Social Learning Center
- Investigators
- Katherine Pears, Ph.D., Principal investigator, Oregon Social Learning Center
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06908330
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- R34MH138714
- Other IDs
- R34MH138714
- Status last verified
- Mar 2025
- First submitted
- 21 Mar 2025
- Last updated
- 3 Apr 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: Deidentified participant data will be shared to the NIMH Data Archive (NDA).
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 3 Apr 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Increasing Kindergarten Social-Emotional Skills for Positive Long-Term Mental Health: A Pilot Test of the Strengthening Social-Emotional Skills for Relating and Thriving at School (SSTRS) Program
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06908330
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- R34MH138714
- Conditions
- Parenting Behavior, Social Emotional Competence, Internalizing Behavior, Externalizing Behavior
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Enrolment
- 150 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Oregon Social Learning CenterUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Study start
- Feb 2026 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- Aug 2028 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Nov 2028 (estimated)
- First posted
- 3 Apr 2025 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School (SSTRS) Program can help children entering kindergarten and their families. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1) Do children who participate in SSTRS have better social-emotional skills and mental health? and 2) Do parents who participate in SSTRS have more positive parenting skills and involvement in their children's learning?
Researchers will compare the SSTRS Program to the regular kindergarten curriculum without SSTRS to see if being in SSTRS helps children to have better mental health and parents to have better parenting skills.
Kindergarteners will have daily SSTRS lessons in their kindergarten classes for 8 weeks.
Their parents will watch videos and attend group meetings with other parents and answer questions about their own and their children's behaviors and mental health
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| SSTRS group | Experimental | Behavioral: Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School ProgramThese participants will participate in the SSTRS intervention. |
| Services as Usual | No intervention | –These participants will receive kindergarten programming as usual. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 4 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- child entering kindergarten in school that is participiating in the study
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- being in a classroom in which the teacher or EA was previously trained in another closely-related treatment protocol
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School ProgramThe SSTRS Program is a developmentally-tailored, school-based preventive intervention focusing on children and their parents at the critical transition to kindergarten to prevent deficits in children's social-emotional skills-which are known transdiagnostic risk factors for a range of mental health problems. Children receive SSTRS programming during their regular school day for eight weeks at the beginning of the school year. Parents receive SSTRS programming via informational videos and virtual parenting groups during the same time period. | Behavioural | SSTRS group |
Primary outcome
Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire
Time frame: Parents will complete the measure at baseline, 2 months post-baseline at the end of the intervention and 9 months post-baseline. Teachers will complete the measure at 9 months post-baseline.
Parent and teacher report on the 25-item measure yields five subscales: Emotional Symptoms Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Conduct Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), Hyperactivity Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems) , Peer Problems Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate more problems), and Prosocial Scale (scores range 0-10, high scores indicate better social skills). A Total Difficulties Score can also be derived by summing all of the scales except the Prosocial Scale resulting in a score raniging from 0 to 40 with higher scores denoting greater difficulties.
Office discipline referrals
Time frame: These will be collected at 9 months post-baseline.
These are records of referrals for serious behaviors within the school setting. They are administartive records.
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 3 Apr 2025.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. Deidentified participant data will be shared to the NIMH Data Archive (NDA).
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
Katherine Pears, Ph.D. principal investigator
Oregon Social Learning Center
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Social-emotional Skills for Thriving and Relating at School Program in people with Parenting Behavior and Social Emotional Competence, run by Oregon Social Learning Center at 1 site in United States.
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 1 inclusion and 1 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: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 3 Apr 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. 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?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Katherine Pears, Ph.D. (5414852711, katherinep@oslc.org), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire (time frame: Parents will complete the measure at baseline, 2 months post-baseline at the end of the intervention and 9 months post-baseline. Teachers will complete the measure at 9 months post-baseline.). 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?
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 3 Apr 2025.