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Table 2 Study outcomes and measures

From: The impact of early-years provision in Children’s Centres (EPICC) on child cognitive and socio-emotional development: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

  

Post allocation

Week 1–4

Week 18–22

Week 30–38

Outcomes

Concept

Measures

Baseline

Post

Follow up

Child cognitive development (primary outcome)

Language

    

Expressive

EYT (expressive vocabulary)

X

X

X

Parent report: CDI

X

X

X

Receptive

Pre-school CELF-2

  

X

Parent report: CDI

X

X

X

Attention

 

EYT (Go No Go)

X

X

X

ECVT

X

X

X

Observation:

3 toys task

X

X

X

Parent report: SDQ and CSBQ

X

X

X

Executive function

 

Non-verbal

reasoning

WPPSI block design

 

X

X

Task shifting

EYT (card sort)

  

X

Phonological

working memory

Digit span

 

X

X

Following instructions

 

X

X

Persistence and strategies

Observation:

Lab-TAB

X

 

X

Inhibition

EYT (Go No Go)

X

X

X

Self- regulation

Parent report:

CSBQ

X

X

X

Child social development (secondary outcome)

Theory of mind and emotional understanding

Observation:

ToM package

X

X

X

Empathy

Observation:

help task

X

X

X

Altruism

Observation:

token sharing

  

X

Pro-social behaviour

Parent report:

SDQ

X

X

X

Child behavioural problems (secondary outcome)

Observation:

don't touch task

X

X

X

Parental report: SDQ

X

X

X

Child emotion regulation

(secondary outcome)

Observation: Lab-TAB

X

 

X

Parent report:

CSBQ

X

X

X

Parental sensitivity and reciprocity

(secondary outcome)

Observation:

book-sharing

X

X

 

Parental cognitive scaffolding

(secondary outcome)

Observation:

book-sharing and puzzle task

X

X

 

Parental mental state talk

(secondary outcome)

Book-sharing

X

X

 

Parental behavioural management strategies

Observation: don't touch task

X

X

X

Parent report: Discipline Scale

X

X

X

Parental stress and mood

Parent report: PSI

X

X

X

Parent report:

HADS

X

X

X

  1. Abbreviations: EYT Early Years Toolbox, CDI Communication Development Inventory, CELF Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, ECVT Early Child Vigilance Task, SDQ Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, WPPSI Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, Lab-TAB Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery, CSBQ Child Self-Regulation and Behaviour Questionnaire, PSI Parenting Stress Index, HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale