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Table 6 Intervention effect on school children’s socio-emotional skills and psychological problems moderated by intervention dosage, regression estimates from multilevel models. Intervention effect moderated by levels of intervention dosage (intensity) with control group as the reference: terms Intervention below/intended intensity x T1

From: Short-term effects of the “Together at School” intervention program on children’s socio-emotional skills: a cluster randomized controlled trial

  

MASCS

SDQ

  

Cooperation

Empathy

Prosocial

Total/psychological problems

  

Estimate

Estimate

Estimate

Estimate

Total

    

Baseline

    
 

Intercept

14.949****

9.513****

6.238****

6.034****

 

2nd grade

0.008

0.069

0.136

−0.288

 

3rd grade

−0.030

−0.017

0.247

0.130

 

Intervention below intended intensity

−0.255

−0.152

−0.237

0.788**

 

Intervention as intended

−0.326

−0.195

−0.388

0.123

Change by time

    
 

T1

0.232**

0.105*

0.165*

−0.268**

 

Intervention below intended intensity x T1

0.068

0.031

−0.008

−0.069

 

Intervention as intended x T1

0.421**

0.162

0.326*

−0.324

Boys

    

Baseline

    
 

Intercept

14.128****

9.135****

5.357****

7.412****

 

2nd grade

0.141

0.112

0.178

−0.601

 

3rd grade

−0.030

−0.050

0.162

0.525

 

Intervention below intended intensity

−0.197

−0.200

−0.137

1.089**

 

Intervention as intended

−0.170

−0.297

−0.237

0.060

Change by time

    
 

T1

0.261**

0.084

0.139

−0.276*

 

Intervention below intended intensity x T1

−0.019

0.003

−0.032

−0.009

 

Intervention as intended x T1

0.219

0.182

0.249

−0.372

Girls

    

Baseline

    
 

Intercept

15.736****

9.890****

7.023****

4.700****

 

2nd grade

−0.290

−0.080

0.031

0.247

 

3rd grade

−0.104

−0.036

0.303

−0.145

 

Intervention below intended intensity

−0.132

−0.003

−0.174

0.093

 

Intervention as intended

−0.289

−0.006

−0.384

−0.122

Change by time

    
 

T1

0.209*

0.118

0.172*

−0.261*

 

Intervention below intended intensity x T1

0.152

0.066

0.033

−0.089

 

Intervention as intended x T1

0.586**

0.153

0.404*

−0.246

  1. MASCS multisource assessment of social competence scale, SDQ strengths and difficulties questionnaire
  2. *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01, ****p < 0.001
  3. Note: Variance components at student and class levels (not shown) were all significant (p < 0.001)