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SAGA for Toddlers. Supporting Children's Linguistic and Socio-Emotional Development in Early Childhood Education and Care

NCT07189104 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2026-05-08

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Summary

The goal of this study is to investigate whether a shared reading intervention including emotion and mind-related dialogues (SAGA for Toddlers) supports the development of 11 to 36 moth-old-children in early childhood education and care.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does the SAGA model support children's social-emotional development?
2. Does the SAGA model support children's language development?

The participating children will attend the intervention at the early childhood education and care.

The participating personnel at the early childhood education and care will receive training, implement the intervention, and answer questionnaires.

The participating caregivers will attend caregiver-evenings and answers questionnaires.

Conditions

  • Social Emotional Competence
  • Language Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SAGA for Toddlers

SAGA for Toddlers includes training sessions and workshops for the ECEC personnel on the mentalization-based shared reading intervention following the SAGA model. During the intervention shared reading sessions (5-10-minutes each) are held for groups of 2 to 3 children for 10 weeks (at least 3 sessions per week) at the ECEC by the personnel. Caregivers are involved in the intervention via caregiver meetings held at the ECEC by the investigators.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Helsinki

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Months
Max Age
36 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-25
Primary Completion
2027-04-30
Completion
2027-04-30

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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