NCT03839225

Effectiveness of a Community - Based Cross-sector Network for the Management of Mental Health Problems and Disorders Associated With Forced Displacement Due to Armed Conflict in the Municipality of Soacha - Cundinamarca

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 299 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Nacional de Colombia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It is of great importance to generate interventions that help ensure greater inclusion and social participation of the population that was and is a victim of the armed conflict, especially in the post-conflict transition in Colombia, and to influence development in the post-accord period through relationships between groups and society. Therefore, the question for this investigation is, what is the effectiveness of a community-based cross-sector network for the management of mental problems and disorders associated with forced displacement due to armed conflict in the commune of Soacha - Cundinamarca, in order to contribute to inclusion and social participation in the post-accord period? Objective: To design a community-based cross-sector network for the management of mental problems and disorders associated with forced displacement due to armed conflict in the commune of Soacha - Cundinamarca, in order to contribute to inclusion and social participation in the post-accord period in Colombia.

Conditions

• Mental Disorder
• Mental Disorder in Adolescence
• Mental Problems
• Mental Disorder in Infancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Community intervention	Community intervention will be built depending on contextual factors and will contain the following elements: * Cross-sector intervention, including sectors to define the intervention as "primary health care services, education services" (language, knowledge to prevent health problems and resilience strategies), family welfare units, "Integral Care and Reparation Unit for Victims" (UARIV), Ministry of Labour, national and international social support network, among others. * The leader will be chosen by the community, with the capabilities to coordinate the community-based network. * Mental health providers at the local level, who must develop psychosocial and mental diagnoses and interventions, based on experience and evidence, respectively. This team will include psychiatry, psychologists (one an expert in clinical psychology) and a community team involved in the implementation of mental interventions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-01
• Primary completion: 2019-09-01
• Completion: 2020-07-01
• First posted: 2019-02-15
• Last updated: 2021-04-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Colombia