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CompletedNCT03524105Updated Jan 8, 2021

Promoting Success for Pre-K Teachers, Families and Children

An interventional study of Program for Parents (Parenting Program) and Thrive Professional Learning in Emotional Stress, sponsored by NYU Langone Health. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-01-08.

Sponsored by NYU Langone Health · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
570
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

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.

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Conditions studied

  • Emotional Stress

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Keywords

  • Socio Economic Adversity
  • Child Development
  • Poverty
  • racial disparity
  • ethnic disparity
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In context

Stress, Psychological

783 studies on the registry are indexed under Stress, Psychological; 128 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 570 is above the median of 85 across 632 interventional studies indexed under Stress, Psychological.

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Lead sponsor

NYU Langone Health is the lead sponsor of 1,391 studies on the registry; 254 are open to participants now.

Of its 227 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 191 (84%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

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.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
570 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Thrive Professional Learning plus ParentCorps

    Behavioral: Program for Parents (Parenting Program)

  • Active comparator
    Thrive Professional Learning track

    Behavioral: Thrive Professional Learning

Interventions

  • BehavioralProgram 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

  • BehavioralThrive 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.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Teacher's knowledge measured using self- report surveys

    Time frame: 15 Months

  2. Teachers' social emotional competencies measured using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)

    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

    Time frame: 15 Months

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Study locations

1 site
  • NYU Langone Health
    New York, New York 10016, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification (text, tables, figures, and appendices).

Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 8, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03524105
Lead sponsor
NYU Langone Health
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 14, 2018
Start date
Sep 17, 2018
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2020
Completion
Aug 31, 2020
Last update
Jan 8, 2021

Study contacts

Laurie Brotman, MD
principal investigator · NYU Langone Health

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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