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The problem
Intervention: Child-led cocreation and conduct of a fully online randomized controlled trial (REST trial) comparing one week of sleeping with a comfort item versus without a comfort item, with embedded guidance through a dedicated website
Who it was tested with: Children aged 7-12 years globally, recruited through online and offline strategies.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"The Kid's Trial was a global, decentralized, child-led study that cocreated and conducted an RCT to help children understand trials and their importance and to improve critical thinking" and "The cocreated Randomized Evaluation of Sleeping With a Toy or Comfort Item (REST) trial was a 2-arm, pragmatic RCT comparing one week of sleeping with a comfort item versus without a comfort item." The study embedded a real RCT (REST) within a participatory citizen-science framework where children co-designed and conducted the trial, using intention-to-treat analysis with a comparison group.
Low retention throughout The Kid's Trial steps (only 21% completed all 6 surveys); very low post-study response rate (20 respondents from 224 initial participants); potential selection bias in post-study responses; minimal intervention effect sizes not supported by sensitivity analyses.
Across countries and designs
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