Reintegrating Children Living at Landfills in Burundi Into Society by Means of a Comprehensive Family Program Addressing Maltreatment and Trauma-related Mental Health Symptoms
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 96
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change of number of days spent at the landfill
研究概览
简要总结
Children living at the landfills of Bujumbura are often exposed to maltreatment, including emotional neglect and physical abuse, and traumatic experiences. Furthermore, they grow up in severe poverty. Addressing trauma-related mental health issues and aggressive behaviour by Narrative Exposure Therapy (FORNET), familial communication by family visits, interaction difficulties of children by a group intervention, poverty by financial support and economic training for mothers, medical problems by medical assistance, legal conflicts by legal advice, and providing access to school, we aimed at reintegrating those children within the Burundian school system and improving familial relationships.
The investigators want to provide evidence, that mental health interventions are an integral part of assisting children and families affected by poverty and violence.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 7 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Spending days at the landfills of Bujumbura
排除标准
- •Psychotic symptoms
结局指标
主要结局
Change of number of days spent at the landfill
时间窗: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
during the last 14 days; sum ranges from 0 - 14
Change of number of aggressive acts measured via an adaption of the Domestic and Community Violence Checklist
时间窗: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
32 items; answer categories: yes or no; sum score ranges from 0 - 32
Change of experienced parental maltreatment measured via a shortened version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE)
时间窗: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
total sum score ranges from 0 - 100; sum score of each sub scale ranges from 0 - 10
Change of load of traumatic symptoms measured via the University of California at Los Angeles Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index (scale administered by Clinicians)
时间窗: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
27 items assessing PTSD, 4 additional items assessing dissociation on a scale from 0 - 4. Due to scoring rules, total sum score ranges from 0 to 80; sub scale intrusion: 0 - 20; sub scale avoidance: 0 - 8; sub scale negative cognitions: 0 - 28; sub scale hyperarousal: 0 - 24; higher values indicate more severe PTSD symptoms; all items are summed up for the total score
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Anselm Crombach
Principal investigator
University of Konstanz