NCT01542398

A Family-based, Resilience-focused Intervention for War-affected Communities in North-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

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?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 159 (actual)
• Sponsor: Queen's University, Belfast · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Psychological Distress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family-Focused, Community-Based, Resilience-Targetting Psychosocial Intervention	A 12-module manualised intervention focusing on reducing psychological distress, improving family and community functioning and boosting daily functioning of adolescents through the use of Mobile Cinema Screenings and task-based, participatory, group-sessions

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2012-04-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2012-03-02
• Last updated: 2018-12-28
• Results posted: 2018-12-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Republic of the Congo