BASIS-T Efficacy Trial

Description

For the approximately one in five children with social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) challenges, accessible evidence-based prevention practices (EBPPs) are critical. In the United States, schools are the primary service setting for children's SEB service delivery but EBPPs are rarely adopted or implemented by educators (e.g., teachers) with sufficient fidelity to see effects. Given that individual behavior change is ultimately required for successful implementation, focusing on individual-level processes holds promise as a parsimonious approach to enhance adoption. Beliefs and Attitudes for Successful Implementation in Schools for Teachers (BASIS-T) is a pragmatic, multifaceted pre-implementation strategy targeting volitional and motivational mechanisms of educators' behavior change to enhance implementation and student SEB outcomes. This study protocol describes a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial designed to evaluate the main effects, mediators, and moderators of the BASIS-T implementation strategy in the context of Positive Greetings at the Door (PGD), a universal school-based EBPP previously demonstrated to reduce student disruptive behavior and increase academic engagement.

Conditions

Behavior, Child

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

For the approximately one in five children with social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) challenges, accessible evidence-based prevention practices (EBPPs) are critical. In the United States, schools are the primary service setting for children's SEB service delivery but EBPPs are rarely adopted or implemented by educators (e.g., teachers) with sufficient fidelity to see effects. Given that individual behavior change is ultimately required for successful implementation, focusing on individual-level processes holds promise as a parsimonious approach to enhance adoption. Beliefs and Attitudes for Successful Implementation in Schools for Teachers (BASIS-T) is a pragmatic, multifaceted pre-implementation strategy targeting volitional and motivational mechanisms of educators' behavior change to enhance implementation and student SEB outcomes. This study protocol describes a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial designed to evaluate the main effects, mediators, and moderators of the BASIS-T implementation strategy in the context of Positive Greetings at the Door (PGD), a universal school-based EBPP previously demonstrated to reduce student disruptive behavior and increase academic engagement.

Supporting Teachers in Implementing Classroom Practices to Build Better Student-Teacher Relationships

BASIS-T Efficacy Trial

Condition
Behavior, Child
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Seattle

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98115

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Being a K-5th grade teacher at an elementary or K-8 school, and not a teacher in a special education-only classroom
  • * Having been trained or supervised on delivering PGD in the past 5 years

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Washington,

Aaron Lyon, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Washington

Study Record Dates

2026-07-31