NCT03012451

A Psychosocial Program Impact Evaluation in Jordan

Measuring the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of a Scalable Program of Psychosocial Intervention for Refugee Youth

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 817 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study aims to deliver a robust pre-post evaluation of the wellbeing impacts of an innovative, brief, and scalable psychosocial intervention, delivered to refugee youth living in urban settlements in Jordan. The study was conducted using two waves of data collection: the first featured an intervention and a matched control group, the second featured a full randomized control trial.

Detailed description

This study will provide a robust evaluation of the Mercy Corps 'Advancing Adolescents, No Lost Generation' program that targets stress alleviation in refugee youth (12-18 years) with specific measures of psychosocial stress, biological stress, and cognitive function.

Conditions

• Stress, Psychological
• Mental Health Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Advancing Adolescents	The "Advancing Adolescents" programme is a structured 8-week psychosocial intervention for adolescents in humanitarian crises, based on profound stress attunement processes. It features three elements that are widely viewed as important to support youth adjustment in contexts of complex emergencies: (i) safety: establishment of a 'safe space' within the community as a base for activities and site of protection; (ii) support: facilitation of social support and self-expression; and (iii) structured activities: access to scheduled group activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2017-04-01
• First posted: 2017-01-06
• Last updated: 2021-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States