NCT01509872

Psychological and Psychosocial Intervention With War-Affected Children

An RCT Comparing Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (a Specific Psychological Intervention) and A Child Friendly Space (a Non-trauma Focused Psychosocial Intervention) in Reducing Psychological Distress Among War-affected Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Queen's University, Belfast · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators are interested in knowing whether a group-based, trauma-focused intervention (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is superior to a more general, non trauma-focused, psychosocial intervention (Child Friendly Spaces) in reducing post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety and conduct problems and increasing pro-social behavior among war-affected children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Conditions

• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Conduct
• Pro-social Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	9 sessions of manualised, culturally modified, group-based trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
BEHAVIORAL	Child Friendly Space	9 sessions of a manualised, culturally appropriate, non trauma-focused psychosocial intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2012-04-01
• First posted: 2012-01-13
• Last updated: 2019-04-09
• Results posted: 2019-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Republic of the Congo