Clinical trial NCT05590975: Evaluation of Play and Care Together (PACT) Implementation
Official title: Evaluation of Play & Care Together (PACT) Implementation for Improved Resilience, Life Skills, and Psychosocial Skills Among Participating Children and Peer Supporters
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Resilience
Psychosocial Wellbeing
Peer Problem
Keywords: Resilience among children
Life skills
Peer social behavior
Lead sponsor: Aga Khan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Right to Play
First posted: 2022-10-21
Enrollment: 212
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The assessment will be carried out parallel in the intervention and the control arm.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of PACT intervention in improving resilience, life skills, and psychosocial skills among children and peer supporters. The evaluation will be carried out in the Public Schools of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Detailed description: Right to Play is a non-governmental organization that offers play-based life skills education in public schools of Pakistan. This project aim to improve psychosocial wellbeing, resilience and social and emotional life skills of students enrolled in secondary schools of Lyari in Karachi South, Sindh, Pakistan through "Play and Act Together (PACT)" curriculum. The Aga Khan University will evaluate effectiveness of their intervention that will be offered in public schools of Karachi. Data will be collected from grade 6 students(children) and grade 7 or 8 peer supporters at baseline, midline and endline of the study. Moreover, throughout PACT intervention, fidelity monitoring would be ensured randomly for 3 sessions out of 10 through a checklist to evaluate accuracy of PACT intervention delivered. Furthermore, feasibility checklist would be filled by each participant at the end of the study to analyze the satisfaction, feasibility of PACT intervention and important learnings from PACT curriculum. After the intervention, focus group discussion will took place to learn about the experiences of children, peer supporters and adult coaches who received PACT intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Have not participated in previous Right to Play activities
* Voluntarily agree to participate in this program in 2022-23
* More than 30 students in grades 6 enrolled
* A safe playing area (either indoors or outdoors)
* Only Boy or Only girl school
* Sindh Literacy and Education Department direct administration
* Children of grade 6 age 12-15 years
* Children who give assent to participate
* Parents who give consent to participate their children

Exclusion Criteria:

* Schools who does not give consent to participate
* Children who do not give assent
* Parents who do not give consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Resilience
timeFrame: Baseline ( at the time of enrolment), midline (after 5 weeks) and Endline (within two weeks of intervention)
measure: Change in Resilience
timeFrame: Baseline ( at the time of enrolment), midline (after 5 weeks) and Endline (within two weeks of intervention)
measure: Change in social and emotional life skills
timeFrame: Baseline ( at the time of enrolment), midline (after 5 weeks) and Endline (within two weeks of intervention)
measure: Change in Peer social behaviour
timeFrame: Baseline ( at the time of enrolment), midline (after 5 weeks) and Endline (within two weeks of intervention)
Secondary outcomes:
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Locations:
city: Karachi
country: Pakistan
facility: Aga Khan University
state: Sindh
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