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Transitioning Emotionally and Academically to Middle School Successfully (TEAMSS)

NCT05145387 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2025-06-08

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Summary

Excessive anxiety is a common problem that severely impairs short and long term academic functioning. The transition to middle school (MS) results in increases in anxiety and decreases in academic functioning. Students with anxiety in particular, due to their vulnerability to school-based stressors, are at risk for social, emotional and academic failure during the transition to MS. Unfortunately, the majority of these students do not get identified. Reducing student anxiety has been associated with improvement in academic functioning. Because the transition to MS is inevitable, targeting students with excessive anxiety will help their adjustment to their new school setting, reducing the need for special education and mental health counseling. No interventions exist to help these students with this transition.

This study aims to: (1) develop and assess the feasibility of a brief, multi-component intervention, referred to as TEAMSS, Transitioning Emotionally and Academically to Middle School Successfully, to reduce anxiety and improve academic functioning through the transition to MS using an iterative development process (i.e., expert review, two open trials, and small randomized controlled trial (RCT)); (2) conduct a pilot RCT comparing the preliminary impact of TEAMSS, relative to enhanced usual care (EUC), in improving students' social, behavioral, and academic functioning through the transition to MS; and (3) examine theory-based mediators, predictors, and moderators of TEAMSS and assess intervention costs.

Conditions

  • Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Transitioning Emotionally and Academically to Middle School Successfully (TEAMSS)

Students randomized to TEAMSS will receive reading materials on transitioning to middle school and a a school tour with the middle school clinician (in 5th grade) and the TEAMSS group sessions (in 6th grade) delivered over 10 weeks. During the 10 weeks of TEAMSS, parents of students will attend two group meetings and clinicians will consult with at least one teacher (usually the advisory/homeroom teacher).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • UConn Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Golda Ginsburg, PhD · UConn Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
9 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-02-08
Primary Completion
2025-08-30
Completion
2026-07-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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