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The effectiveness of Rock and Water in improving students’ socio-emotional adjustment and social safety: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Students following a low education track have an increased risk for developing problem behaviors. Rock and Water is a widespread, but still poorly evaluated, intervention that aims to improve students’ socio-emotional adjustment and social safety. The aims of this study are to evaluate (...

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Autores principales: Mertens, E. C. A., Deković, M., van Londen, M., Reitz, E.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30045770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0247-y
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Deković, M.
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Reitz, E.
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description BACKGROUND: Students following a low education track have an increased risk for developing problem behaviors. Rock and Water is a widespread, but still poorly evaluated, intervention that aims to improve students’ socio-emotional adjustment and social safety. The aims of this study are to evaluate (1) the effectiveness of Rock and Water on socio-emotional adjustment (i.e., psychosocial wellbeing, sexual autonomy, and resilience) and social safety (i.e., perceived social security in the classroom, aggression, and bullying) and to examine (2) moderators and (3) mediators of its effects. METHODS: Schools are randomly assigned into four conditions: ‘Light’ (a core team of teachers is trained), ‘Standard’ (a core team of teachers and the whole school team is trained), ‘Plus’ (a core team of teachers, the whole school team is trained, and parents are involved), or ‘Control condition’ (Care As Usual). We aim to include 180 7th Grade students in each condition (N = 720) across all waves. A multi-informant (i.e., students, parents, and teachers) approach is used to assess the outcomes (socio-emotional adjustment and social safety), moderators (student, trainer, and parent characteristics) and mediators (self-control, self-reflection, self-esteem, and emotion regulation). Video-observations will be analyzed in a subsample to study the possible mediating effect of changes in deviant and prosocial communication among students on the effect on social safety. DISCUSSION: This project will provide information on the effectiveness of (different levels of school and parental involvement in) Rock and Water, which can be used by schools to decide upon the most efficient way to improve the care for the students. We will be able to shed more light on what works for whom and the working mechanisms of Rock and Water. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Dutch Trial Registration number 6554, registered on the 3rd of July 2017. The design of this study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Utrecht University (FETC17–015). This study is financially supported by a grant from The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development, grant number 531001106. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40359-018-0247-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-60605462018-07-31 The effectiveness of Rock and Water in improving students’ socio-emotional adjustment and social safety: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Mertens, E. C. A. Deković, M. van Londen, M. Reitz, E. BMC Psychol Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Students following a low education track have an increased risk for developing problem behaviors. Rock and Water is a widespread, but still poorly evaluated, intervention that aims to improve students’ socio-emotional adjustment and social safety. The aims of this study are to evaluate (1) the effectiveness of Rock and Water on socio-emotional adjustment (i.e., psychosocial wellbeing, sexual autonomy, and resilience) and social safety (i.e., perceived social security in the classroom, aggression, and bullying) and to examine (2) moderators and (3) mediators of its effects. METHODS: Schools are randomly assigned into four conditions: ‘Light’ (a core team of teachers is trained), ‘Standard’ (a core team of teachers and the whole school team is trained), ‘Plus’ (a core team of teachers, the whole school team is trained, and parents are involved), or ‘Control condition’ (Care As Usual). We aim to include 180 7th Grade students in each condition (N = 720) across all waves. A multi-informant (i.e., students, parents, and teachers) approach is used to assess the outcomes (socio-emotional adjustment and social safety), moderators (student, trainer, and parent characteristics) and mediators (self-control, self-reflection, self-esteem, and emotion regulation). Video-observations will be analyzed in a subsample to study the possible mediating effect of changes in deviant and prosocial communication among students on the effect on social safety. DISCUSSION: This project will provide information on the effectiveness of (different levels of school and parental involvement in) Rock and Water, which can be used by schools to decide upon the most efficient way to improve the care for the students. We will be able to shed more light on what works for whom and the working mechanisms of Rock and Water. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Dutch Trial Registration number 6554, registered on the 3rd of July 2017. The design of this study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Utrecht University (FETC17–015). This study is financially supported by a grant from The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development, grant number 531001106. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40359-018-0247-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6060546/ /pubmed/30045770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0247-y Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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The effectiveness of Rock and Water in improving students’ socio-emotional adjustment and social safety: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30045770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0247-y
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