An interventional study of Be-Prox in Bullying of Child, sponsored by NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS. Active, not recruiting at 4 sites in Norway. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 6 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-12-09.
Sponsored by NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
With an overall aim to ensure a safe and sound kindergarten environment for all Norwegian children in accordance with the Kindergarten Act §§41-43, the objectives of the current project are:
To evaluate the effectiveness of Be-Prox Norway to prevent and handle negative behavior and bullying among peers in Norwegian kindergartens.
To examine implementation factors that promote and inhibit the effectiveness of Be-Prox Norway in Norwegian kindergartens.
To describe the cost-effectiveness of the Be-Prox Norway intervention in Norwegian kindergartens.
To generate knowledge on how the Be-Prox Norway intervention can be aligned and implemented in Norwegian kindergartens.
January 1st, 2021, new additions to the Kindergarten Act came into force in Norway introducing the right for all children to a safe and sound kindergarten environment. According to this act, Norwegian kindergartens shall systematically work to preventing bullying and social exclusion, including adopting a zero-tolerance for violations such as exclusion, bullying, violence, discrimination, and harassment. While relatively little is known about bullying at this age, a growing body of research suggests that bullying occurs also between kindergarten peers and that experiencing bullying at early age is associated with negative consequences.
Currently there are few evidence-based interventions directly targeting bullying among kindergarten peers. Be-Prox, developed for Swiss kindergartens to prevent, uncover and handle negative behavior and bullying in kindergartens have been translated and adjusted to a Norwegian context in a previous pilot study.
The current project is a close collaboration between two Norwegian municipalities, regional centres for child and youth mental health and welfare, and research and educational institutions.
The project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the Be-Prox Norway in a cluster randomized controlled trial, including process and implementation evaluation and cost-effectiveness analyses. Hence the project complies with the current call through introducing research on tools, systems and models that promote evidence-based practices in Norwegian kindergartens in general, and to prevent negative acts and bullying between kindergarten peers in particular.
If proven effective, Be-Prox Norway can be offered to kindergartens nationwide as evidence-based practice to prevent, uncover and handle negative behavior and bullying among Norwegian kindergarten peers.
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS is the lead sponsor of 25 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.
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Training in the 6 Be-Prox module
Behavioral: Be-Prox
Standard care
Be-Prox is an intervention developed to prevent, uncover and handle negative behavior in kindergartens.
Total number of negative acts children have been exposed to by peers the last months post intervention.
Using a set of questions on physical, verbal, relational and object-related negative acts, primary outcome will be the total number of negative acts the child has been exposed to overall. The range for the specific negative acts is 0-5, the range for negative acts overall is 0-20.
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Total number of negative acts children have exposed peers to the last month post intervention.
Using a set of questions on physical, verbal, relational and object-related negative acts, primary outcome will be the total number of negative acts the child has exposed peers to overall. The range for the specific negative acts is 0-5, the range for negative acts overall is 0-20.
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Change in number of children being exposed to negative acts overall "2-3 times a months" or more post intervention
Using a set of questions on physical, verbal, relational and object-related negative acts, the secondary outcome will be a binary outcome on 0) not been exposed to negative acts 2-3 months or more and 1) being exposed to negative acts 2-3 times a month or more.
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Change in number of children exposing other children to negative acts overall "2-3 times a month" or more.
Using a set of questions on physical, verbal, relational and object-related negative acts, the secondary outcome will be a binary outcome on 0) not been exposed to negative acts 2-3 months or more and 1) being exposed to negative acts 2-3 times a month or more.
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Child prosocial bystander behavior post intervention
12 item questionnaire, Alsaker 2004
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Change in Authoritative climate, post intervention
10 item scale, adjusted from Ertesvåg, 2011
Time frame: The last month post Scorers are asked to use "the 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts, 1 and 2 years after post intervention
Change in personnel self-efficacy beliefs, post intervention
5 item scale, adjusted from Fischer, 2019
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Change in personnel understanding of bullying among children in kindergartens
8 items questionnaire
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Specific negative acts the child has been exposed to the last month
Using the set of questions on specific negative acts; physical, verbal, relational and object-related
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Specific negative acts the child has exposed peers to the last month
Using the set of questions on specific negative acts; physical, verbal, relational and object-related
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Total number of negative acts children have been exposed to by peers the last
Using a set of questions on physical, verbal, relational and object-related negative acts, primary outcome will be the total number of negative acts the child has been exposed to overall. The range for the specific negative acts is 0-5, the range for negative acts overall is 0-20.
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
Total number of negative acts children have exposed peers to the last month post
Using a set of questions on physical, verbal, relational and object-related negative acts, primary outcome will be the total number of negative acts the child has exposed peers to overall. The range for the specific negative acts is 0-5, the range for negative acts overall is 0-20.
Time frame: Scorers are asked to use "the last 4 weeks" as the time frame for their registration of the negative acts
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Ran from Aug 2023 to primary completion in Jul 2024, 10 months.
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