NCT05590975

Evaluation of Play and Care Together (PACT) Implementation

Evaluation of Play & Care Together (PACT) Implementation for Improved Resilience, Life Skills, and Psychosocial Skills Among Participating Children and Peer Supporters

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 212 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aga Khan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of PACT intervention in improving resilience, life skills, and psychosocial skills among children and peer supporters. The evaluation will be carried out in the Public Schools of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Detailed description

Right to Play is a non-governmental organization that offers play-based life skills education in public schools of Pakistan. This project aim to improve psychosocial wellbeing, resilience and social and emotional life skills of students enrolled in secondary schools of Lyari in Karachi South, Sindh, Pakistan through "Play and Act Together (PACT)" curriculum. The Aga Khan University will evaluate effectiveness of their intervention that will be offered in public schools of Karachi. Data will be collected from grade 6 students(children) and grade 7 or 8 peer supporters at baseline, midline and endline of the study. Moreover, throughout PACT intervention, fidelity monitoring would be ensured randomly for 3 sessions out of 10 through a checklist to evaluate accuracy of PACT intervention delivered. Furthermore, feasibility checklist would be filled by each participant at the end of the study to analyze the satisfaction, feasibility of PACT intervention and important learnings from PACT curriculum. After the intervention, focus group discussion will took place to learn about the experiences of children, peer supporters and adult coaches who received PACT intervention.

Conditions

• Resilience
• Psychosocial Wellbeing
• Peer Problem

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	PACT Intervention	PACT Intervention is a group based session delivered by Peer supporters and adult coaches on PACT module. There will be 10 sessions, one per week for 90 to 120 minutes each.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-03-30
• Completion: 2023-03-30
• First posted: 2022-10-21
• Last updated: 2023-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan