An interventional study of Dialogue Based Early Detection and Traditional parent-teacher meeting in Child Behavior and Child Development, sponsored by Haukeland University Hospital. Recruiting at 3 sites in Norway. Open to participants aged 2 Years to 3 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-10-01.
Sponsored by Haukeland University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the novel Dialogue Based Early Detection (DBED) method can prevent impaired mental health in kindergarten children. It will also learn about the screening properties of DBED to identify children with impaired mental health, if DBED facilitates early interventions, and if DBED is well accepted and sustainable in an ordinary kindergarten setting.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Researchers will compare outcomes in kindergartens where DBED is implemented with outcomes in kindergartens where it's not.
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This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 140 across 197 interventional studies indexed under Child Behavior.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Participants (parents of kindergarten children) will take part in the biannual DBED parent-teacher meetings.
Other: Dialogue Based Early Detection
Participants (parents of kindergarten children) will take part in traditional parent-teacher meetings.
Other: Traditional parent-teacher meeting
Before the biannual parent-teacher meeting, both the kindergarten teacher and the parents will complete the Early Worry Questionnaire containing 39 items related to development and well-being of the individual child. For each item the respondents are asked to indicate if they during the last three months have been concerned. In the parent-teacher meeting they will discuss their possible concerns and try to reach an agreement on how to evaluate the child. If necessary, possible supportive interventions or further assessments locally in the kindergarten or in the public services will be decided.
This is an annual or biannual meeting that is prepared by the kindergarten teacher where (s)he reports on the child's appearance / behaviour and possible challenges as to development and behaviour from an educationalist's view. There are no common templates for the agenda of such meetings, however, usually the kindergarten teacher's perspective and opinion will dominate.
Total difficulties score of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
The SDQ has five scales (scored 0-10); emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems and pro-social scale. The scales are combined (excluding the pro-social scale) into a 'total difficulties' score (0-40).
Time frame: [Time Frame: The SDQ is completed by both kindergarten teacher and each parent twice a year with approximately 6 months intervals during the three last year of attendance of the child in kindergarten, continued by the parents during the first two years i
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