Recruiting

PRAISE Program

Sponsor:

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Code:

NCT07191782

Conditions

Aggression Childhood

Bullying Victimization

Social Behavior

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 8+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Universal, classroom-based, Bullying and Aggression Prevention Program

Study Details

Brief summary:

The PReventing Aggression In Schools Everyday (PRAISE) Program has evidence of impact when run by research staff. PRAISE was adapted using community-based participatory research to a coaching model whereby school-staff are trained to facilitate the program and receive ongoing coaching from research staff. The overall objective is to demonstrate the efficacy of the adapted PRAISE program when facilitated by in-school staff.

Conditions

Aggression Childhood

Bullying Victimization

Social Behavior

Study ID

NCT07191782

Start date

Sep 26, 2025

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

Dec 30, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 8+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Student Inclusion Criteria:

  • Enrolled in one of the participating school sites
  • In a 3rd-5th grade classroom participating in the study

Staff Inclusion Criteria:

  • Employed by one of the participating school sites
  • Teach and/or provide services to students in 3rd-5th grade

Students Exclusion Criteria:

  • Do not speak English
  • Special education students not integrated in a regular education classroom
  • Student not in Grades 3-5 at the participating school sites

Teacher Exclusion Criteria:

  • Do not speak English
  • Do not teach/provide services with 3rd-5th grade students at the participating school sites

Study Design

Enrollment

1008 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: Comparison Schools

These schools do not receive the PRAISE intervention. These schools can have their standard aggression and bullying practices such as community meeting, restorative circles, Second Step program, and the Olweus program. We will measure what classrooms in the comparison condition are doing, but we will not intervene.

experimental: Intervention Schools

These schools will receive the PRAISE program which includes training and coaching from the research team.

Interventions

Universal, classroom-based, Bullying and Aggression Prevention Program

PRAISE is a universal, classroom-based aggression and bullying prevention program that addresses all forms (physical, verbal, relational, cyber), with a strong focus on the relational and reactive behaviors. All emotional and social skills taught focus on applying and practicing the skills within peer relationships. This program has gone through iterative development and adaptations using a community-based participatory approach whereby the elementary students and staff were active partners with researchers in refining the program. Specific attention was paid to ensuring that the program is feasible for schools to implement and sustain while also being relevant and relatable for students from a variety of backgrounds and school communities (e.g., under-resourced, higher levels of community violence). This updated PRAISE includes \~14 sessions (amounts can vary by grade) and training and coaching for school-based facilitators of the program.

Primary outcome measure

  • Knowledge of Social Information Processing [ Time Frame: At baseline and post intervention, approximately 8 months. ]
  • Hostile Attributions [ Time Frame: At baseline and post intervention, approximately 8 months. ]
  • Reactive/proactive Aggression [ Time Frame: At baseline and post intervention, approximately 8 months. ]
  • Cyberbullying [ Time Frame: At baseline and post intervention, approximately 8 months. ]
  • Bystander Behaviors [ Time Frame: At baseline and post intervention, approximately 8 months. ]
  • Relational and Overt Aggression [ Time Frame: At baseline and post intervention, approximately 8 months. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Tracy E Waasdorp, PhD MSed

2676370861waasdorpt@chop.edu

Brooke Paskewich, PsyD

2155903193paskewich@chop.edu

Locations

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Recruiting

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19146-2305

Contacts

267-426-9286

More Information

Sponsor

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Last update posted

Jul 22, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • late elementary school
  • universal classroom-based
  • aggression prevention
  • bullying prevention
  • relational aggression
  • coaching

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on 2026-07-22.