Clinical trial NCT03012451: A Psychosocial Program Impact Evaluation in Jordan
Official title: Measuring the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of a Scalable Program of Psychosocial Intervention for Refugee Youth
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress, Psychological
Mental Health Impairment
Keywords: Stress
Insecurity
Mental Health
Lead sponsor: Yale University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Queen Margaret University
name: University of Western Ontario, Canada
name: Harvard University
name: University of Florida
First posted: 2017-01-06
Enrollment: 817
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The study aims to deliver a robust pre-post evaluation of the wellbeing impacts of an innovative, brief, and scalable psychosocial intervention, delivered to refugee youth living in urban settlements in Jordan. The study was conducted using two waves of data collection: the first featured an intervention and a matched control group, the second featured a full randomized control trial.

Detailed description: This study will provide a robust evaluation of the Mercy Corps 'Advancing Adolescents, No Lost Generation' program that targets stress alleviation in refugee youth (12-18 years) with specific measures of psychosocial stress, biological stress, and cognitive function.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Eligible and enrolled in Mercy Corps Advancing Adolescents program
* Syrian refugee and Jordanian host-community youth residing in 4 urban centers in northern Jordan

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not available for study recruitment (started sessions or deferred sessions before study start date).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Psychosocial Stress: Insecurity (Regional Measure)
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Psychosocial stress: Distress (Regional Measure)
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Psychosocial Stress (International Measure)
timeFrame: 11 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mental Health Difficulties: Regional Measure
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Mental Health Difficulties: International Measure
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Prosocial Behavior: International Measure
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Resilience: Cross-cultural Measure
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Biological Stress: Cortisol
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Biological Stress: Cell-mediated Immune Function
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Cognitive function
timeFrame: 11 weeks
Other outcomes:
measure: Posttraumatic stress symptoms
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Genetic markers of trauma and/or stress
timeFrame: 11 weeks
Locations:
city: New Haven
country: United States
facility: Yale University
state: Connecticut
Study officials:
affiliation: Yale University
name: catherine panter-brick, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Panter-Brick C, Dajani R, Eggerman M, Hermosilla S, Sancilio A, Ager A. Insecurity, distress and mental health: experimental and randomized controlled trials of a psychosocial intervention for youth affected by the Syrian crisis. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2018 May;59(5):523-541. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12832. Epub 2017 Oct 2.