Impact
We measure our impact through external evaluations by research centers and surveys with educators and families. Both show that The solution works is that The problem is urgent.
The Order of Portuguese Psychologists elaborated an appreciation that comes down to:
A creative and playful program, solidly grounded in scientific evidence and very simple use.
You can also read here The previous appreciation of the Order (March 2022), with suggestions for improvement we have incorporated into the program.
The main result is that the program is accessible and effective to teach Identification of emotions and emotional regulation strategies.
Through a partnership between Surfeel and the Higher Health School, it included part of the Surfeel program to develop a project under its specialty and hopes to publish this data soon. However, he wrote the following preliminary results:
"In order to comply with the Post Licence Study Plan in Community Nursing of the Santa Maria Higher School of Health was developed an internship at the Health Centers Group (ACES) of Espinho/Gaia, in the Community Care Unit (UCC) of Arcozelo/thorn. The same started in February 2021 and will end at 24 September 2021.
The methodology of health planning was used, which is constituted by the following steps: the diagnosis of situation, the definition of priorities, the setting of objectives, the selection of strategies, the elaboration of programs and projects, the preparation of execution, execution and evaluation.
The proposed theme was the approach to mental health and skills socio -emotional in children, at school.
In the diagnosis of the situation was made a survey of the needs health on health -related quality of life in children. This one survey was carried out through the application of the questionnaire Kidscreen-52 to students attending the 3rd and 4th year at the elementary school Thorn 3.
The type of study developed was descriptive, cross and approach quantitative, where a sample of 128 children was selected, after Application of a non-random sampling technique to the target population.
In the second stage of health planning - determination of priorities - health needs were identified and subsequently prioritized through the analysis grid method.
Thus, after the application of this method, the problems considered Priority for action were: provocation and general mood state.
In this sense, and following the methodology of health planning, it was elaborated a project entitled "Teaching", with the objective of sensitize the target population to the importance of identifying and managing Emotions. This project also presents as its objective to sensitize the target population for identifying various types of violence and Identify existing support resources in the community.
I used the episodes of Surfeel in health education about management of emotions, and the results obtained in this session were as follows:
- Fee of children capable of identifying two characteristics of emotions: 98.6%
- Fee of children capable of distinguishing at least three emotions: 99.3%
- Fee of children capable of identifying two strategies to manage emotions: 83.1%
- Do you consider the theme useful. : 95.1%
- Did you understand the contents covered. : 98.6%
- Would you like to have more sessions on this theme. : 86.6%"
The following results come from a questionnaire between 25th May and 10th June 2021 to 35 educators that had done the first 7 sessions or more. Of these, 14 answered (response rate: 40%) with answers for 299 children with 6.1 years of age on average (standard deviation: 1.9).
The main result is that the majority of educators strongly agree that Bulgy helped children in the following areas: emotional awareness, emotional well-being, problem-solving, self-confidence, self-awareness, emotional expression, empathy, courage, reduced conflict, reduced stress.
The questionnaire drew inspiration from the "Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire" and had these instructions.
Below are 10 statements about the possible impact of Bulgy on your classroom. For each, please mark whether you disagree, somewhat agree, or strongly agree. Please take into account the videos, podcast, activities, and conversations that arose because of Bulgy and the change in behaviour of children in general.
The following results come from a questionnaire between 7th and 10th March 2021 for the 76 families that done the first 9 sessions or more. Of these, 55 answered (72% response rate) with answers for 71 children with 6.6 years of age on average (standard deviation: 2.2).
The main result is that 89% of children change behaviour, especially they have are happier, have more courage, and become calmer.
The questionnaire had these instructions:
Below are 5 statements. For each of them, choose one of the following options:
- Not true
- Somewhat true
- Very true
It would help us a lot if you answer all statements to the best of your ability, even if you are not absolutely sure or if the statement sounds strange. Please answer based on Bulgy's impact (videos, podcast, activities, and conversations that it sparked) and the child's general behavior (independently of lockdown in the last few weeks).