Promoting Asylum-seeking & Refugee Children's Coping With Trauma

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

A short term trauma-focused cognitive- behavioral program to reduce trauma-related mental health problems among asylum-seeking and refugee children.

The main hypothesis of the study is that the TRT program significantly improves mental health (i.e. reduces symptoms of post-traumatic symptoms, depression and generalized anxiety and increases perceived quality of life (Qol) in the intervention group compared to the waiting-list control group.

Clinical Trial Description

Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) was developed by Children and War Foundation (www.childrenandwarfoundation.org ) as a tool to support children in coping with their mental reactions to being exposed to war and catastrophes. TRT has proven to be effective in reducing trauma-related mental health symptoms in such contexts. However, it has never been used with children experiencing all the uncertainties and stress of an asylum-seeking context, or with refugee children in high-income countries. The main aim of the present study is therefore to implement and evaluate the TRT among asylum-seeking and refugee children in the context of four different care conditions: 1)asylum-seeking children who arrived accompanied by a legal care-taker 2) asylum-seeking children less than 15 years in care centers administered by the Child Welfare Services 3) asylum-seeking children 15 years and older living in asylum centers regulated by the Directorate of Immigration 4) Former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who have been granted residence (refugees) and are resettled in a municipality in Norway.

Based on Power analyses, the target group is 40 children in each care condition (total n = 160) > 9 years speaking Arabic, Tigrinya, Somali, Dari, or Pashto.

The study employs a randomized clustered experimental design that includes a waiting list control group, which will receive the TRT when the intervention group has completed the program. ;

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Depression
Disease
Mental Disorders
Mental Health Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Adolescence
Social Anxiety
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorders, Traumatic

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT03822598
Study type	Interventional
Source	Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	June 20, 2017
Completion date	June 30, 2018

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Promoting Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children's Coping With Trauma

Clinical Trial Summary

Clinical Trial Description

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms