Clinical Trial: Early Intervention Skills for Preschool Children With Emotional and Stress Related Disorders

Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Early Intervention Skills for Preschool Children With Emotional and Stress Related Disorders

Brief Summary: This study is about early intervention for preschool children with emotional and stress related disorders. To develop a set of program that could be used in district hospitals for early intervention of preschool children with emotional and stress related disorder or problems.

Detailed Summary:

The objective of this study will be including two aspects. The first one is to develop a set of comprehensive program that including psychoeducation, screening, basic assessment, diagnosis and basic treatment on the emotional and stress related disorders/problems in preschool children. This program is easy implemented for the psychiatrists and pediatricians who work in district primary hospitals. They are not only see patients in hospital but also responsible for the healthcare education in community and kindergarten. In this project they will be trained to master the knowledge and skills on early intervention on the emotional and stress related disorders/problem for preschool children in kindergarten and the basic treatment skills in clinic. The second aspect is the district primary psychiatrists and pediatricians provide psychoeducation, screening and training in kindergarten. The teachers will be trained the program on teaching children the skills on emotional self-regulation and basic stress coping. It's expected that this program will help the primary psychiatrists and pediatricians' clinical skills and help them to improve the awareness and skills of children's emotional and stress related problems/disorder in teachers and parents, improve children's emotional and stress related problems/disorders.

The comprehensive program will include the attained achievements from our past research (the screening questionnaires, interview methods, booklets and protocol for teachers and parents, book and courses for training children on emotional self-regulation and stress coping skills, a simplified CBT manual for children that the trained psychiatrist could use. Xinhua Hospital will be leading this project and 5 primary hospitals in 4 districts will be involved in. These five collaborators hospitals were selected from Shanghai district-level Maternal and Child Health hospitals a
Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Current Primary Outcome: level of emotional and stress related problems assessed by composite scales [ Time Frame: through the intervention completion, an average of 2 months ]

children's positive and negative behaviors assessed by composite scales (children's emotional and stress symptom screening checklist, Short and long questionnaire for young children , Stress symptom checklist for children).


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

  • level of emotional and stress related problems assessed by composite scales and interview. [ Time Frame: Three months later after the intervention program completion ]
  • level of emotional and stress related problems assessed by composite scales and interview. [ Time Frame: Six months later after the intervention program completion ]
  • rate of knowledge awareness [ Time Frame: through the intervention and psychoeducation completion, an average of 2 months ]
    the knowledge awareness of teacher and parents on children's emotional and stress problems and management


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Dates:
Date Received: November 22, 2016
Date Started: January 2017
Date Completion: December 2018
Last Updated: December 12, 2016
Last Verified: November 2016