NCT03288935

Trauma Informed Care for Newly Resettled Refugees

Trauma Informed Care for Refugee Newcomers in Virginia: A Factorial Design of Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Research

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate early-phase interventions for refugee wellness promotion and build evidence for dissemination of the intervention model and curricula through refugee resettlement programs, local and national.

Detailed description

This study will examine the main effects of trauma-informed case management (TICM) and trauma-informed cultural orientation (TICO) interventions, respectively, in reducing resettlement distress and increasing coping capacity, which will improve emotional wellness and social adaptation and thus resettlement outcomes. This project will also test the interaction effects of two-tiered intervention model, discerning effective and ineffective components of the intervention model. Differences in effects across intervention conditions may inform how improvement in what outcomes or which phase can affect refugees' wellness and adjustment over time.

Conditions

• Mental Stress
• Emotional Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	TICM	The TICM will be designed to include the seven domains of trauma-informed care articulated by SAMHSA (2014): 1) early screening and comprehensive assessment; 2) consumer driven care and services; 3) trauma-informed, responsive and educated workforce; 4) emerging and evidence-informed best practices; 5) safe and secure environments; 6) trauma-informed community partnerships; and 7) a performance monitoring system. The trained agency case managers and staff will provide the TICM to 50 newly resettled refugees during their regular R\&P service period (i.e., 60 days).
BEHAVIORAL	TICO	The community-based TICO will be based on the Im's CHW that comprises 8 sessions (2 hour per session), co-facilitated by trained refugee peer mentors and community service providers. The TICO sessions will include interactive sessions on healthy eating, healthy body and healthy mind, acculturation \& resettlement stress, understanding trauma and stress, healthy coping, helping others, and community building.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-28
• Primary completion: 2019-03-20
• Completion: 2019-05-15
• First posted: 2017-09-20
• Last updated: 2024-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States