Clinical trial NCT01426451: Assessment of a Drama Workshop Program for Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents
Official title: Assessment of a Drama Workshop Program for Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Learning Disabilities
Keywords: Dramatherapy
Group tutoring activities
Impairment
Emotional and behavioural problems
Learning difficulties
Lead sponsor: McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2011-08-31
Enrollment: 464
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether a drama workshop program for immigrant and refugee youth is effective in reducing impairment in high school students presenting learning difficulties.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All students who are assigned to special classes based on behavioural or learning problems in grades 7-10 in the participating schools will participate in the program and be included in the study if they and their parents consent to in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

* More severe cases

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in impairment of emotional and behavioural symptoms reported by youth
timeFrame: T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in emotional and behavioural symptoms
timeFrame: T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention
measure: Change in impairment
timeFrame: T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention
measure: Change in relations with peers
timeFrame: T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention
measure: Change in school performance
timeFrame: T0: up to 6 weeks before the intervention, T1: up to 2 weeks after the intervention, T2: between 7 and 8 months after the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: École Antoine-de-St-Exupéry
state: Quebec
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: École La Dauversière
state: Quebec
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: École La Voie
state: Quebec
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: École Lucien-Pagé
state: Quebec
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: École Saint-Luc
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: McGill University Health Center, CSSS de la Montagne
name: Cécile Rousseau, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Rousseau C, Beauregard C, Daignault K, Petrakos H, Thombs BD, Steele R, Vasiliadis HM, Hechtman L. A cluster randomized-controlled trial of a classroom-based drama workshop program to improve mental health outcomes among immigrant and refugee youth in special classes. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 15;9(8):e104704. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104704. eCollection 2014.