Clinical trial NCT05640921: Group-integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT) to Aid Communities' Reintegration of Former Terrorists in Nigeria: A Randomised Control Trial
Official title: Group-integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT) to Aid Communities' Reintegration of Former Terrorists in Nigeria: A Randomised Control Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depression
Trauma
Anxiety
Fear
Lead sponsor: Teesside University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Coal City University
First posted: 2022-12-07
Enrollment: 24
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The project aims to make significant contributions that change the conversation in communities and policy circles through promoting knowledge of nonviolent peace strategies using the Group integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT) to help heal trauma, improve peace, and encourage positive rehabilitation and reintegration of former Boko Haram terrorists' members and their families.

Detailed description: The main question it aims to answer are:

• What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with Gi-CBT to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of of former Boko Haram terrorists' members and their families.into society?

Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Group integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of GiCBT.

Researchers will compare Gi-CBT group with the media orientation group to see if there are differences between a change in attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration at base line, end of intervention and three months follow up.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. community members who had previous experience of trauma as a result of Boko Haram atrocities, score 5 and above for the culturally-adapted Trauma Screening Questionnaire (Brewinn et al., 2002)
2. are aged 18+ years and above
3. are residents of the designated areas including Bornu (Maiduguri), and its environs.

Exclusion Criteria:

* those not meeting the study inclusion criteria will be excluded.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Service Satisfaction Scale
timeFrame: Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention]
measure: PHQ-9
timeFrame: Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention]
measure: The Attitude Towards Repentant Terrorist and their Reintegration scale
timeFrame: Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention]
measure: Trauma Screening Questionnaire
timeFrame: Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention
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