Evaluation of the CHIME Intervention for Improving Early Head Start/Head Start Educator Well-being

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · Mar 17, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is studying a program called CHIME, which focuses on mindfulness techniques to help educators in Early Head Start and Head Start programs feel better emotionally and manage stress. The researchers want to see not only if the CHIME program helps educators improve their well-being but also if it positively affects the social and emotional health of the young children they teach. To find this out, they will compare educators who take part in the CHIME program with those who join later.

To be eligible for this study, participants must include educators who work at participating Early Head Start or Head Start centers for more than 20 hours a week, parents or legal guardians of children in those centers, and young children enrolled in the classrooms of participating educators. Educators and parents need to be at least 19 years old and able to complete activities in English. Children must be under 6 years old and enrolled in a participating classroom. Participants can expect to learn mindfulness techniques and engage in activities that might help everyone feel better both emotionally and socially.

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • There are 3 types of participants included in this study: Early Head Start/Head Start education staff who work at one of the partner sites; parents of children attending EHS or HS; children attending EHS or HS and enrolled in the classroom of a participating EHS/HS educator.
• Inclusion criteria for each of these groups are as follows:
• Early Head Start and Head Start Educators:
• • Provision of signed and dated informed consent form in Docusign
• • Currently employed as a lead or assistant educator for \>20 hours per week in a participating Head Start or Early Head Start center
• • Stated intention to participate in the CHIME intervention
• • All genders; age 19 and older
• • Able to complete activities in English
• • Parents
• • Provision of electronically (in Docusign) /manually signed informed consent form
• • All genders
• • Age 19 and older
• • is Parent or legal guardian of child enrolled in the classroom of a EHS/HS educator participating in the study
• • Able to complete activities
• • Children
• • Provision of electronically signed informed consent form by parent/legal guardian
• • All genders; aged \< 6 years
• • Enrolled in the classroom of a EHS/HS educator participating in the study
• • If \> 3 years, ability to complete study activities in English or with translation support
• Exclusion Criteria:
• Exclusion criteria for each of the study groups are as follows:
• Early Head Start and Head Start Educators:
• • Does not currently work at a participating HS/EHS center
• • younger than 19 years of age
• • Parents
• • Not a parent/legal guardian of a child in an EHS/HS classroom
• • younger than 19 years of age Children NA, although children less than 3 years will not complete the self-regulation tasks These exclusion criteria are essential to the design of the study. The population of interest is EHS/HS education staff (e.g., teachers) working within centers that have agreed to participate in the evaluation of CHIME. The legal age of majority in Nebraska is age 19 years.