Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Effectiveness of Non-medical Health Worker (NMHW) Led Counseling on Common Mental Disorders in Rural Mid-western Nepal
Brief Summary: Psychological treatments may be provided by non-medical health workers (NMHW) to increase accessibility. Task shifting of screening and treatment of non-communicable diseases to non-medical health workers is both effective and cost-effective. A recent review included five randomized controlled trials to assess effectiveness of NMHW provided psychological interventions to treat common mental disorders and depression, and all five trials found the intervention beneficial over usual treatment.

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of psychosocial counselling as practiced by non-medical psychosocial counsellors in improving the outcomes of persons with common mental disorders in a primary health care setting.

Patients with psychosocial distress will be randomized to receive either counseling + enhanced usual care or enhanced usual care by health workers. The hypothesis is that adding psychosocial counselling to enhanced usual care, will be more effective than enhanced care alone in reducing the symptoms of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder and in improving day-to-day functioning of clients receiving services in primary health care settings.

If proven effective, non-medical health worker led counseling could be an affordable treatment to alleviate psychological suffering and improve functional capacity of Nepalese people.


Options:
A: Arm Label: Advancing Adolescents; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Advancing Adolescents | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Advancing Adolescents; Assigned to Arm(s): Advancing Adolescents
B: Arm Label: IPT arm; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: interpersonal psychotherapy for groups | Arm Label: CP arm; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: creative play therapy | Arm Label: control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: interpersonal psychotherapy for groups; Assigned to Arm(s): IPT arm | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: creative play therapy; Assigned to Arm(s): CP arm
C: Arm Label: Psychosocial counselling + Enhanced usual care (EUC); Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Psychosocial counselling, Other: Enhanced Usual Care | Arm Label: Enhanced Usual Care (EUC); Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: Enhanced Usual Care | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Psychosocial counselling; Assigned to Arm(s): Psychosocial counselling + Enhanced usual care (EUC) | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Enhanced Usual Care; Assigned to Arm(s): Enhanced Usual Care (EUC), Psychosocial counselling + Enhanced usual care (EUC)
D: Arm Label: BF-CBT and group physiotherapy; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: BF-CBT and group physiotherapy | Arm Label: Waiting list; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: BF-CBT and group physiotherapy | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: BF-CBT and group physiotherapy; Assigned to Arm(s): BF-CBT and group physiotherapy, Waiting list

Answer: C