Title: Is a Family-based, Life Skills Focused Intervention Effective in Reducing Psychological Distress and Stigma and Improving Inter-personal Relations and Functioning Among Former LRA Abductees and Other War-affected Children in Their Community in Dungu, the Democratic Republic of Congo?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 159
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Reduction in Post-traumatic Stress Reaction Symptoms Among Participants
研究概览
简要总结
The main research question of the study is whether a family-based, life-skills focused psychosocial intervention is effective in reducing psychological distress and stigma and improving inter-personal relations and functioning among war-affected children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 7 Years 至 99 Years（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •War-affected
- •eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
- •Formerly abducted child or vulnerable child
排除标准
- •severe/violent behavioural problems
- •severe learning difficulties
研究组 & 干预措施
Family-Focused Psychosocial Intervention
Intervention Group
干预措施: Family-Focused, Community-Based, Resilience-Targetting Psychosocial Intervention (Behavioral)
Waiting List Control
结局指标
主要结局
Reduction in Post-traumatic Stress Reaction Symptoms Among Participants
时间窗: 1-week before intervention, 3-weeks later
To assess post-traumatic stress reaction symptoms the 8-item Impact of Events Scale (CRIES-8) was used (Yule, 1997). Respondents indicating how frequently they experience a symptom on a 4-point Likert scale (0, 1, 2, 3). Thus the minimum score was 0 while the maximum score was 24. A high score indicates a high level of post-traumatic stress symptoms. This 8-item CRIES, which was designed for children over 7 years of age, has an identical factor structure to the 22-item version (Yule, 1997) which was previously validated with a sample of 1,046 war-affected adolescents in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Mels, Derluyn, Broekaert \& Rosseel, 2010) (internal reliability range: 0·79 to 0·84; Cronbach's alpha for the total scale: 0·93). In the current study, internal consistency was 0·557.
次要结局
- African Youth Psychosocial Assessment Inventory - Depression and Anxiety Subscales(pre-intervention, 3 weeks later)
研究者
Paul O'Callaghan
Principal Investigator
Queen's University, Belfast