Center for Early Intervention and Family Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Department of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences, Child and Family Welfare, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
BMC Psychol. 2024 Mar 6;12(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01568-1.
Most young children (0-3 years) attend formal childcare in Denmark, many of them fulltime. Yet recent reports of the quality of Danish childcare centers have shown that in more than one-third of nurseries, the interactions between caregivers and young children (0-3 years) are of "insufficient" quality, which constitutes a risk for affected children's well-being and development. Effective interventions to improve childcare providers' interactive skills are necessary.
In this randomized controlled trial, we test the effectiveness of the Caregiver Interaction Profile training, which focuses on improving six core interactive skills: sensitive responsiveness, respecting children's autonomy, structuring and limit setting, verbal communication, developmental stimulation, and fostering positive peer interactions. We will recruit N = 200 childcare providers from nursery groups in Copenhagen (n = 100 training group, n = 100 waiting-list control group). Our primary outcomes are childcare providers' six interactive skills named above, observed from video-recorded interactions in the nursery groups. The secondary goal of our study is to test whether the training boosts children's social-emotional and linguistic development. To this end we aim to recruit N ≈ 500 children from participating childcare providers' nursery groups (n ≈ 250 training group, n ≈ 250 waiting-list control group). We measure social-emotional and linguistic development with various standardized questionnaires, filled out by parents and childcare providers.
If the training is effective at improving childcare providers' interactive skills, then this will be an important foundation for implementation efforts, such as offering the training as part of the educational program of childcare providers. Future research should also evaluate whether the Caregiver Interaction Profile training is effective for childcare providers of older children (3-5 years) in Danish kindergartens.
This trial is registered at clinicaltrials.gov as "Testing the Effects of the Caregiver Interaction Profile Training on the Interactive Skills of Daycare Providers (CDP)" with registry ID NCT05654116. Registration date: 12/01/2022.
丹麦大多数幼儿（0-3 岁）都在正规的日托中心接受教育，其中许多人是全日制的。然而，最近有关丹麦日托中心质量的报告显示，在超过三分之一的托儿所中，保育员与幼儿（0-3 岁）之间的互动质量“不足”，这对受影响儿童的福祉和发展构成了风险。有必要采取有效的干预措施来提高保育员的互动技能。
在这项随机对照试验中，我们测试了保育员互动简介培训的有效性，该培训专注于提高六项核心互动技能：敏感反应、尊重儿童自主性、组织和设定限制、语言交流、发展刺激和培养积极的同伴互动。我们将从哥本哈根的托儿所小组中招募 200 名保育员（培训组 100 名，候补名单控制组 100 名）。我们的主要结果是观察到托儿所小组中视频记录的互动中保育员的上述六项互动技能。我们研究的次要目标是测试培训是否能促进儿童的社会情感和语言发展。为此，我们计划从参与保育员的托儿所小组中招募约 500 名儿童（培训组约 250 名，候补名单控制组约 250 名）。我们使用各种标准化问卷来衡量社会情感和语言发展，由家长和保育员填写。
如果培训能够有效提高保育员的互动技能，那么这将是实施努力的重要基础，例如将培训作为保育员教育计划的一部分提供。未来的研究还应评估保育员互动简介培训对丹麦幼儿园年龄较大的儿童（3-5 岁）的保育员是否有效。
这项试验在 clinicaltrials.gov 上注册为“测试保育员互动简介培训对日托提供者互动技能的影响（CDP）”，注册号为 NCT05654116。注册日期：2022 年 12 月 1 日。
