Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2018
Quality Matters: Implementation Moderates Student Outcomes in the PATHS Curriculum.
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- The effectiveness of Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies program: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- Mindfulness's moderating role applied on online SEL education.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- High quality implementation of 4Rs + MTP increases classroom emotional support and reduces absenteeism.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Influence of Classroom-Level Factors on Implementation Fidelity During Scale-up of Evidence-Based Interventions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Effects of theFrontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Does Training Modality Predict Fidelity of an Evidence-based Intervention Delivered in Schools?Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- Implementation Quality Impacts Fourth Grade Students' Participation in Physically Active Academic Lessons.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- Innovations in Social and Emotional Learning Research and Practice: Building from Evidence and Applying Behavioral Insights to the Design of a Social and Emotional Learning Intervention in Northeast Nigeria.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Evaluating the Impact of a Targeted Approach Designed to Build Executive Function Skills: A Randomized Trial of Brain Games.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Adaptation of a school-based mental health literacy curriculum: from Canadian to English classrooms.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2021Article
- Does the Delivery System Matter? The Scaling-Out of a School-Based Resilience Curriculum to the Social Services Sector.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Reach, Recruitment, Dose, and Intervention Fidelity of the GoActive School-Based Physical Activity Intervention in the UK: A Mixed-Methods Process Evaluation.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- The Effects of Implementation Quality of a School-Based Social and Emotional Well-Being Program on Students' Outcomes.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2020Article
- Evaluating the Implementation Quality of a Social and Emotional Learning Program: A Mixed Methods Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Active Learning Norwegian Preschool(er)s (ACTNOW) - Design of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Staff Professional Development to Promote Physical Activity, Motor Skills, and Cognition in Preschoolers.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Analyses of the relationship between levels of implementation and outcomes of school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions are relatively infrequent and are typically narrowly focused. Thus, our objective was to assess the relationship between variability in a range of implementation dimensions and intervention outcomes in the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) curriculum. Implementation of PATHS was examined in 69 classrooms across 23 schools in the first year of a major randomized controlled trial. Implementation data were generated via classroom-level structured observations. In addition to factual data on dosage and reach, exploratory factor analysis of observer ratings revealed two distinct implementation dimensions, namely, "quality and participant responsiveness" and "procedural fidelity." Student social-emotional skills, pro-social behavior, internalizing symptoms, and externalizing problems were captured through child self-report and teacher informant-report surveys (N = 1721). Hierarchical linear modeling of study data revealed that higher implementation quality and participant responsiveness was associated with significantly lower ratings of students' externalizing problems at 12-month follow-up. Conversely, and contrary to expectations, higher dosage was associated with significantly lower pro-social behavior and social-emotional skills at 12-month follow-up. No significant associations were found between variability in either procedural fidelity or reach and any intervention outcomes. The implications of these findings are discussed, and study limitations are noted.
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