Efficacy of the Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers for Teachers and Self-Administered Versions

Summary

OBJECTIVES: The goal of this parallel randomized controlled trial is to test the efficacy of 2 new modalities of the Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC) in caregivers from general population, specifically, in teachers at primary school children who are also parents.

The main QUESTIONS it aims to answer are:

* Are the new versions of MISC (MISC-T for Teachers, and MISC-SA or Self-Administered) efficient to a) improve the quality of caregivers-child interaction, and b) benefit children mental health, compared with a control group defined as Treatment as Usual (TAU)?
* Is there any effect-transference to the school-setting despite the MISC is trained out of the school setting? re the new versions of the MISC efficient to benefit teachers' well-being at work in terms of lower burn-out, higher perceived self-efficacy or better classroom climate?

PARTICIPANTS will randomly receive one of the 3 versions of MISC: MISC-T (administered by videoconference in teams of 6-10 teachers), MISC-SA (self-administered by the participants in weekly sessions with Genially), and MISC-R (self-administered by the participants but mainly based in readings and cognitive exercises instead of video-feedback, the core element of MISC-T and MISC-SA).

COMPARISONS: Researchers will compare all 3 groups among them to see to what extent:

* MISC-T shows efficacy compared with MISC-R (TAU; control group)
* MISC-SA shows efficacy compared with MISC-R (TAU; control group)
* MISC-T is more efficient than MISC-SA

Conditions

• Randomized Controlled Trial

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers, Teachers' version (MISC-T)

This is a 36-hour group training involving 4 theoretical + 11 practice online sessions using video-feedback, the core component of MISC original trainings. Session 1: MISC presentation; Session 2: Bases of the interaction and MISC culture-context components; Session 3: The emotions in the interaction and MISC emotional components; Session 4: MISC cognitive components and implications for learning; Session 5: Practice with you-tube examples of interaction; Session 6: Practice with trainer's examples of video-feedback. Sessions 7 to 14: Practice with participants' video-recordings. Session 15: End of the intervention, last video-feedback training and preparing for post-assessment.

BEHAVIORAL

Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers, Self-Administered version (MISC-SA)

This is a 36-hour individual training involving 25-weekly online, individual, self-administered 50' sessions (21h) + 4 online 1.5-hour group meetings with a supervisor (6h) and 9h of between sessions work (readings, video-recordings for later video-feedback, reflection exercises). Session 1 (Supervisor): Presentation of the MISC program; Sessions 2 to 8 (Self-Administered or SA): Theoretical bases of the MISC: Session 9 (Supervisor): Summary, online group exercises and keys for forward recordings; Sessions 10-11 (Christmas Homework): Recording daily life interactions; Sessions 12-17 (SA): guided reflection with video-feedback; Session 18 (Supervisor): Control session for doubts and video-feedback group training. Sessions 19-28 (SA): guided reflection with video-feedback. Session 29 (Supervisor): Final online video-feedback group training.

OTHER

Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers - Readings version (MISC-R): Treatment as Usual (TAU)

This is an equivalent 36-hour online self-administered training involving 27 x 45' individual online sessions (20.25h), mostly based on reflection exercises around brief readings, animated shorts, or pills, but not video-feedback. This is complemented with 2 x 1.5h online group face-to-face sessions with a supervisor (3h) and 13h of between-sessions work based on looking for new information, adult-child activities (but not for video-feedback) or out-of-line guided reflective exercises. Session 1 (Supervisor): group meeting for program presentation; Sessions 2-28 (Self-Administered): Online self-administered sessions doing readings or watching pills; Session 29 (Supervisor): Final doubts session to close de course.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sergi Ballespí, PI · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

22 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-09-12

Primary Completion

2025-01-15

Completion

2025-02-02

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations