How to Help War-affected Children and Adolescents: the Role of Memory Functions in Therapeutic Intervention
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 3
- 主要终点
- Depression as measured by Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children
研究概览
简要总结
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.
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
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 9 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •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
排除标准
- •acute psychosis
- •intellectual disability
研究组 & 干预措施
Narrative Exposure Therapy
For the intervention group receiving Narrative Exposure Therapy treatment, the intervention will last for approximately three months and include 10-12 weekly sessions of 60-90 minutes. The course of the intervention will follow the NET manual (Schauer et al., 2011).
干预措施: Narrative Exposure Therapy (Behavioral)
Treatment as Usual
For the TAU control group, participants will receive the usual care for posttraumatic stress symptoms currently offered by each unit.
干预措施: Treatment as Usual (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Depression as measured by Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children
时间窗: 9 months
Resilience as measured by Child and Youth Resilience Measure
时间窗: 9 months
Post-traumatic Stress as measured by Revised Impact of Event Scale
时间窗: 9 months
Psychological Distress as measured by Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
时间窗: 9 months
Cognitive Performance as measured by Working Memory Test Battery for Children
时间窗: 9 months
次要结局
- 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)
研究者
Kirsi Peltonen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tampere University