Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT04061954 |
| Other study ID # |
UKCR19 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
N/A
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
April 6, 2019 |
| Est. completion date |
May 27, 2020 |
Study information
| Verified date |
October 2021 |
| Source |
University of Konstanz |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
Children living in poverty often are at risk to leave their family to work at the landfill.
The main reasons for this are torn family systems, family violence, exclusion, poverty and a
lack of intra-familial communication. Children in the district of Buterere who spend their
days on the streets or on the landfills of Bujumbura, Burundi to earn a living are
particularly vulnerable. The project aims to create a safe environment for these young people
and to strengthen their family structures in the long term. For this purpose, we plan to
treat traumatized parents psychotherapeutically and to improve their parenting skills within
the families in group and family sessions. The financial situation is to be improved in the
medium term through agricultural group projects. In addition, participating children and
youths will be granted access to school and education, and participate in a skill training
group to improve social competencies. In the long term, parents are to set up savings and
micro credit groups in order to ensure the education of the children. The project involves 40
families, which are particularly affected by poverty and traumatic experiences. The project
is based on scientific findings of the implementing organizations, which carried out similar
projects in Burundi in the last years.
Description:
Children living in poverty often are at risk to leave their family to work at the landfill.
The main reasons for this are torn family systems, family violence, exclusion, poverty and a
lack of intra-familial communication. Psychological stress due to past political crises
diminishes parents' ability to provide a safe environment for their children and often leads
to maltreatment in the families. Children in the district of Buterere who spend their days on
the streets or on the landfills of Bujumbura, Burundi to earn a living are particularly
vulnerable. The project aims to create a safe environment for these young people and to
strengthen their family structures in the long term to prevent them from losing family
cohesion due to poverty and lack of support. For this purpose, we plan to treat traumatized
parents psychotherapeutically and to improve their parenting skills within the families in
group and family sessions. The individual trauma treatment aims also at reducing aggression
problems frequently associated with trauma in order to reduce negative consequences for the
children. The group sessions for parents aim to address subjects such as parenting skills,
alcohol abuse, family planning, and conflicts amongst couples. The family visits aim at
reinforcing communication between children and their parents. The financial situation is to
be improved in the medium term through agricultural group projects. In addition,
participating children and youths will be granted access to school and education, and
participate in a skill training group. In the long term, parents are to set up savings and
micro credit groups in order to ensure the education of the children. This multifactorial
design should help to reduce the above-mentioned main risk factors for living on the street.
The project involves 40 families, which are particularly affected by poverty and traumatic
experiences. The legal guardians within the families are identified at the beginning of the
project and directly involved to strengthen upbringing skills, to improve the economic
situation of the family and to enable the adults affected by the violent political crises in
Burundi to deal with their own psychological problems. In addition, one child between the
ages of 5 and 20 per family is identified as the main beneficiary. This serves to gain a
deeper insight into the family's communication and, in particular, to take sufficient account
of the children's perspective. Through the integral approach of the project, which guarantees
psychological, medical, social, legal and economic support, the children are to be protected
from increasing violence on the streets and from family violence in the long term. The
project is based on scientific findings of the implementing organizations, which carried out
similar projects in Burundi in the last years.
