How to Help War-affected Children and Adolescents: the Role of Memory Functions in Therapeutic Intervention
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Tampere University
- Enrollment
- 50
- Locations
- 3
- Primary Endpoint
- Depression as measured by Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children
Overview
Brief Summary
This study aims to understand how war trauma affects children's and adolescents' memory functions and mental health, and whether Narrative Exposure Therapy is effective in enhancing optimal memory functions and alleviating mental health problems. The study analyzes the mental health and cognitive and emotional healing mechanisms of therapeutic intervention among war-affected children and adolescents.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 9 Years to 17 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •9-17 years old
- •has spent some part of her/his life living in a country where organized violence was taking place, or at a refugee camp
- •suffers from significant stress symptoms thought be trauma-related
Exclusion Criteria
- •acute psychosis
- •intellectual disability
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Depression as measured by Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children
Time Frame: 9 months
Resilience as measured by Child and Youth Resilience Measure
Time Frame: 9 months
Post-traumatic Stress as measured by Revised Impact of Event Scale
Time Frame: 9 months
Psychological Distress as measured by Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Time Frame: 9 months
Cognitive Performance as measured by Working Memory Test Battery for Children
Time Frame: 9 months
Secondary Outcomes
- Quality of Traumatic Memory as measured by Trauma Memory Quality Questionnaire(9 months)
- Trauma Related Cognitions as measured by Children's Post Traumatic Cognitions Inventory(9 months)
- General functioning of autobiographical memory as measured by reported life events(9 months)
Investigators
Kirsi Peltonen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tampere University