DOI: 10.5061/dryad.x3ffbg7sc
title: A systematic review of non-clinician trauma based interventions for school age youth

description: Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is increasingly globally
 recognised as a risk factor for health problems in later life. Awareness
 of ACEs and associated trauma is increasing in schools and educational
 settings, as well as demand for supportive services to deal with needs.
 However, there is a lack of clear evidence for effective interventions
 which can be delivered by non-clinicians (e.g., the school staff
 themselves). For this systematic review, we searched five electronic
 databases (Web of Science, Embase, Science Direct, Applied Social Sciences
 Index (ASSIA) and EBSCO) for studies published since January 2013. The
 review question was: What evidence exists for the efficacy of
 non-clinician delivered interventions for supporting trauma recovery or
 improvements in mental health in school-age youth (4-18 years) who have
 experienced ACEs? Search terms included: Trauma* OR "Post-Traumatic
 Stress" OR PTSD and Intervention* OR Treatment* and children OR youth
 and education OR school. Of the 4097 studies identified through the
 search, 326 were retrieved for full text screening and 25 were included in
 the final review. Included articles reported on interventions suitable for
 non-clinician delivery, were published in English in the last 10 years,
 amd involved participants aged 4-18 years (school-age) and had exposure to
 ACEs. There was considerable heterogeneity in study design, outcome
 measures and the intervention being studied. Selected studies were quality
 assessed using validated assessment tools. The majority of studies were
 assessed to be of weak quality due to convenience sampling of participants
 and potential bias, indicating there is a lack of high quality research
 evidence to inform non-clinician delivered trauma-informed interventions.
 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based approaches are tentatively
 suggested as a suitable target for future rigorous evaluations of
 interventions addressing ACE-related trauma recovery and mental health
 improvement in school-age youth.
description: This dataset was collected through a systematic literature search
 with the following terms:  1. Trauma* OR
 "Post-Traumatic Stress" OR PTSD (Topic)  2.
 and Intervention* OR Treatment* (Topic)  3. and
 children OR youth OR young OR adolescen* (Topic) 4.
 and education OR school OR teach* OR play (Topic) 5.
 not review OR meta-analysis OR preschool OR pediatric OR longitudinal OR
 "very young children" OR toddlers (Topic)
 Timespan: 2013-01-01 to 2023-04-04 (Index Date)
 Five electronic databases – Web of Science, Embase, Science
 Direct, Applied Social Sciences Index (ASSIA) and EBSCO (including CINAHL
 Plus with Full Text, MEDLINE, APA PsycArticles, APA PsycInfo, Teacher
 Reference Center, and Education Research Complete) – were searched to
 identify relevant studies published in English Please
 see the supplementary information for a more detailed search
 strategy.
description: # A systematic review of non-clinician trauma-based interventions for
 school-age youth 
 Repository for the data analysis of the systematic review of non-clinician
 trauma-based interventions for school-age youth The repository includes: *
 Search strategy used on different databases to produce all results
 included in the manuscript * Summary of dataset used for analysis,
 including characteristics of studies included in the review * Summary of
 quality assessment of included studies, using the following tools: *
 Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP)’s Quality Assessment Tool
 for Quantitative Studies * For details of how the EPHPP was used to
 generate the scores in the Quality Assessment Table, please see guidance
 at
 * Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Qualitative Studies Checklist * For details of how the CASP Checklist was used to generate Quality Assessment scores, please see guidance at * Detailed Quality Assessment Table * Cells containing ‘Y’ in this document means ‘yes’ * Cells containing ‘N’ in this document means ‘no’ * Cells containing ‘NA’ in this document means ‘not applicable’ * Cells are colour coded as red where the overall score was ‘weak’ * Cells are colour coded as yellow where the overall score was ‘moderate’ or ‘strong’.