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Evaluating the implementation of a school-based emotional well-being programme: a cluster randomized controlled trial of Zippy’s Friends for children in disadvantaged primary schools

Overview of attention for article published in Health Education Research, August 2014
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Title
Evaluating the implementation of a school-based emotional well-being programme: a cluster randomized controlled trial of Zippy’s Friends for children in disadvantaged primary schools
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Health Education Research, August 2014
DOI 10.1093/her/cyu047
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Aleisha M. Clarke, Brendan Bunting, Margaret M. Barry

Abstract

Schools are recognized as one of the most important settings for promoting social and emotional well-being among children and adolescents. This clustered randomized controlled trial evaluated Zippy's Friends, an international school-based emotional well-being programme, with 766 children from designated disadvantaged schools. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the immediate and long term impact of the programme and to determine the impact of implementation fidelity on programme outcomes. Teachers reported emotional literacy outcomes using the Emotional Literacy Checklist, and emotional and behavioural outcomes using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Controlling for the hierarchical structure of the data, path analysis using structural equation modelling revealed that the programme had a significant positive impact on the children's emotional literacy scores including significant improvements in the subscale scores of self-awareness (P < 0.001), self-regulation (P < 0.01), motivation (P < 0.001) and social skills (P < 0.001) at post-intervention. These results were maintained at 12-month follow-up (P < 0.01). The programme, however, did not have a significant impact on children's emotional and behavioural problems. Analysis of programme fidelity indicated that high fidelity was directly related to improved emotional literacy scores at post-intervention.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 245 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 45 18%
Researcher 30 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 26 11%
Student > Bachelor 18 7%
Other 32 13%
Unknown 67 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 87 36%
Social Sciences 36 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 1%
Other 13 5%
Unknown 76 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2021.
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#2,633,025
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#121
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#2
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