Effectiveness of Narrative Exposure Therapy Among Refugee Children and Adolescents

Treatment as Usual Clinical Trial

Official title:

How to Help War-affected Children and Adolescents: the Role of Memory Functions in Therapeutic Intervention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02425280
• Other study ID #: 275804
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2014
• Est. completion date: April 2018

Study information

• Verified date: October 2018
• Source: University of Tampere
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to understand how war trauma affects children's and adolescents' memory functions and mental health, and whether Narrative Exposure Therapy is effective in enhancing optimal memory functions and alleviating mental health problems. The study analyzes the mental health and cognitive and emotional healing mechanisms of therapeutic intervention among war-affected children and adolescents.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: April 2018
• Est. primary completion date: April 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 9 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 9-17 years old

• has spent some part of her/his life living in a country where organized violence was taking place, or at a refugee camp

• suffers from significant stress symptoms thought be trauma-related

Exclusion Criteria:

• acute psychosis

• intellectual disability

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Narrative Exposure Therapy
• Treatment as Usual

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Narrative Exposure Therapy

• Treatment as Usual

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Finland	Centre for Torture Survivors	Helsinki
Finland	Family Counselling Centre of the City of Tampere	Tampere
Finland	Psychiatric Clinic for Traumatized Children at Tampere University Hospital	Tampere

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Tampere

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Finland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Subjective distress during therapy measured by Subjective Units of Distress Scale		9 months
Other	Peritraumatic Dissociation measured by Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire		once, at baseline
Primary	Post-traumatic Stress as measured by Revised Impact of Event Scale		9 months
Primary	Depression as measured by Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children		9 months
Primary	Psychological Distress as measured by Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire		9 months
Primary	Resilience as measured by Child and Youth Resilience Measure		9 months
Primary	Cognitive Performance as measured by Working Memory Test Battery for Children		9 months
Secondary	Quality of Traumatic Memory as measured by Trauma Memory Quality Questionnaire		9 months
Secondary	Trauma Related Cognitions as measured by Children's Post Traumatic Cognitions Inventory		9 months
Secondary	General functioning of autobiographical memory as measured by reported life events		9 months