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Adapting and piloting WHO’s Parent Skills Training in a low income setting: a case study in Ethiopia

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Registration Number
PACTR201812802696820
Lead Sponsor
Kings College London
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
80
Inclusion Criteria

Having a long-term caring responsibility for a child aged 2-9 in whom a developmental disorder or delay has been identified by a health worker (no formal clinical diagnosis is required);
Living within easy travelling distance of training site;
Able to attend three individual sessions and nine group sessions;
Having sufficient contact time during the week with the child with DD (seeing the child at least 5 days a week on average) to carry out homework exercises;
Ability to speak Amharic;
Willingness to give qualitative and quantitative feedback on the programme;
Caregiver 18 years of age or older.

Exclusion Criteria

Child with DD is acutely disturbed and/or in need of specialist medical attention;
Lack of informed consent from caregiver;
Child with DD has severe visual or hearing impairment

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Caregiver child interaction CCI, rating based on video-taped interaction between caregiver and child rating adapted from Adamson et al., 2012. Rating conducted by trained raters blind to assessment time and intervention group status.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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