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- Clinical Trial NCT03807427
Regulating Emotions Through Adapted Dialectical Behavior Skills for Youth (READY-Nepal) (READY-Nepal)
Using Adapted Dialectical Behavior Skills as Mental Health Prevention in Post-Earthquake Nepal: READY-Nepal Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Trial
Study Overview
Detailed Description
SETTING: The study will be conducted in school settings in earthquake -affected areas throughout the Kathmandu Valley. Due to an aggregation of factors including political and environmental trauma, these areas are at high risk for the development and continuation of mental health problems.
STUDY DESIGN: Regulating Emotions through Adapted Dialectical behavior skills for Youth in Nepal (READY-Nepal) is a pilot quasi-experimental trial. All students between the ages of 13 to-17 enrolled in a secondary school in one of two earthquake -affected districts in the Kathmandu Valley will be eligible for participation. After enrollment, classes will be assigned to either READY-Nepal or a wait-list control condition. Groups will be gender-stratified due to concerns around stigma and confidentiality found in similar trials in Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Because of the higher potential for contamination effects (i.e., transmission of skills or related intervention content) at the individual level, whole classroom sections will either be assigned to the experimental or waitlist conditions. Because of the pilot nature of this preliminary feasibility and acceptability trial, the sample size will not be powered for inference testing. Results from this pilot study will be used to identify parameters necessary for an appropriately powered cluster- randomized trial (CRT) of the intervention.
INTERVENTIONS: READY-Nepal is a 10 -session, classroom- based skills training program designed to promote positive mental health in addition to supporting resilient responses in trauma- exposed adolescents. The modularized, emotion-focused intervention was informed by principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and was designed to augment and generalize Nepali adolescents' emotion regulation abilities during current or future stressful circumstances. READY-Nepal is divided into 5 components, and includes both didactic and experiential instruction in skills related to mindfulness, stress tolerance, emotional awareness and regulation, validation of self and others, and mastery of interpersonal relationships. The program was designed with a flexible delivery format in mind, in order to increase its dissemination potential in LMIC like Nepal. The program was developed from a prior, more intensive version of the intervention that was culturally adapted and piloted with self -destructive women in rural Nepal. READY-Nepal will be delivered by local Nepali clinical counselors trained by a US psychiatrist and clinical psychology doctoral student with comprehensive DBT training. Program facilitators will participate in weekly ongoing supervision with the original program developers.
PARTICIPANTS: School- going adolescents (ages 13- to 17) residing in earthquake-exposed areas in Kathmandu Valley are the intended direct beneficiaries of READY-Nepal. For this feasibility and acceptability pilot, additional qualitative component participants will include school teachers and primary caregivers of a subset of participating adolescents.
PLANNED ANALYSES Statistical analyses: Primary and secondary outcomes of interest will be summarized descriptively and visually over time for both study arms. Total and validated domain- specific scores will be evaluated for each instrument. Outcomes will be analyzed for within -group factor and intervention as a between- group factor. Preliminary estimates of within- and between -group variances and the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) of participant outcomes will be estimated and used to determine sample size calculations for a future, adequately powered cluster -randomized trial.
Qualitative analyses: qualitative research methodology and commercial software (NVIVO 9) will be used to analyze data from focus group discussions and in depth interviews. This method will consist of (1) reading each transcript multiple times for content, then (2) open coding transcripts for data on key themes surrounding the concepts of intervention effectiveness, stress -based explanatory models, and gender- moderated skills uptake. These coding segments will be combined into axial coding categories. The same, iterative process will continue for the remaining transcripts until a final set of emergent themes is presented. Checks for inter-rater reliability using kappa coefficients will also be performed.
ETHICS & RESEARCH GOVERNANCE Consent: Permission for conducting the program in each school will be obtained from school principals. For adolescent participants, research assistants will obtain participant as well as primary caregiver consent. Research assistants will also consent all adult participants participating in qualitative evaluation. All participants will have the opportunity to ask questions related to the process or to study elements. Subjects can also request a virtual or in person meeting with either the researchers or the principal investigator if additional questions arise at any point during the study.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Kathmandu, Nepal
- Transcultural Psychosocial Organization
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Students in the intervention and control arms are eligible for enrollment if they are between the ages of 13-17. Recruitment will attempt to balance gender and age distribution. All adolescent participants will need to be formally enrolled in a participating school.
- Adults participating in qualitative evaluation must be fluent in Nepali. Parents are eligible if their child is an active participant in the program, and teachers are eligible if their students are current participants.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. There are no additional exclusion criteria.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: READY-Nepal
Skills groups based on dialectical behavior therapy principles delivered over 10-12 weeks in a classroom format.
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Regulating Emotions through Adapted Dialectical behavior skills for Youth in Nepal (READY-Nepal) is a brief (10-session), emotion-focused intervention targeting prevention and reduction of trans diagnostic problems related to emotion regulation.
The culturally adapted program is divided into 5 modules, and includes both didactic and experiential instruction in skills related to mindfulness, stress tolerance, emotional awareness and regulation, validation of self and others, and mastery of interpersonal relationships.
Other Names:
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No Intervention: Waitlist Control
Adolescent participants assigned to the control condition will be placed on a waitlist for future enrollment in READY-Nepal.
After primary data collection has ceased, those assigned to the control arm will receive the identical READY-Nepal intervention delivered in the experimental condition.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
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Change in Emotion Regulation
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Adolescent emotion regulation will be assessed using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS).
The DERS has been transculturally adapted in Nepal for use with this population.
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1-week post-intervention
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Anxiety
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Adolescent anxiety is assessed with the Nepali version of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).
This instrument has been clinically and culturally validated for use in Nepal.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Individual Coping
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Generalization of coping skills use will be assessed through the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Ways of Coping Checklist (DBT-WCCL).
In Nepal, the instrument has been transculturally adapted and tested with a sample of suicidal and self-harming women.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Depression
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Depression symptoms will be measured using a subset of items from the Nepali version of the Primary Care Depression Screening (PCDS).
The PCDS has been clinically and culturally validated for use in Nepal.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Post-Traumatic Stress
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Symptoms of post-traumatic stress will be assessed using a subset of items from the Nepali version of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS).
The CPSS has been clinically and culturally validated for use in Nepal.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Self-Validation
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Adolescent self-validating behaviors will be assessed using the Self-Validating & Invalidating Questionnaire (SVSI-Q).
This instrument has been culturally adapted for use in Nepal.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Adolescent Functioning
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Adolescent functional impairment will be measured using the Nepali version of the Child Functioning Impairment Scale (CFI).
The CFI has been clinically and culturally validated for use in Nepal.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Resilience
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Adolescent resilience will be measured using items adapted from the Resilience Scale.
This adapted scale has been clinically and culturally validated in Nepal.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Implicit Self-Esteem
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Implicit self-esteem will be assessed using a computer-based Implicit Association Test (IAT).
The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) will be used as the standardized comparison tool for the IAT.
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1-week post-intervention
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Change in Suicidal and Self-Harming Behaviors
Time Frame: 1-week post-intervention
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Suicidal ideation, suicide, and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) will be assessed via a 7-item scale including Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS) item #10, in addition to daily diary cards completed by participating adolescents.
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1-week post-intervention
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, Duke University
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Wagnild GM, Young HM. Development and psychometric evaluation of the Resilience Scale. J Nurs Meas. 1993 Winter;1(2):165-78.
- Baer RA, Smith GT, Hopkins J, Krietemeyer J, Toney L. Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness. Assessment. 2006 Mar;13(1):27-45. doi: 10.1177/1073191105283504.
- Bridge JA, Goldstein TR, Brent DA. Adolescent suicide and suicidal behavior. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2006 Mar-Apr;47(3-4):372-94. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01615.x.
- Corbin J, Strauss A. Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Sage publications; 2014 Nov 25.
- Cousins S. Nepal's silent epidemic of suicide. Lancet. 2016 Jan 2;387(10013):16-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01352-5. No abstract available.
- Gratz KL, Roemer L. Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation and dysregulation: Development, factor structure, and initial validation of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale. Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment. 2004 Mar 1;26(1):41-54.
- Kerres Malecki C, Kilpatrick Demary M. Measuring perceived social support: Development of the child and adolescent social support scale (CASSS). Psychology in the Schools. 2002 Jan 1;39(1):1-8.
- Kohrt BA, Jordans MJ, Tol WA, Luitel NP, Maharjan SM, Upadhaya N. Validation of cross-cultural child mental health and psychosocial research instruments: adapting the Depression Self-Rating Scale and Child PTSD Symptom Scale in Nepal. BMC Psychiatry. 2011 Aug 4;11(1):127. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-127.
- Kohrt BA, Jordans MJ, Tol WA, Speckman RA, Maharjan SM, Worthman CM, Komproe IH. Comparison of mental health between former child soldiers and children never conscripted by armed groups in Nepal. JAMA. 2008 Aug 13;300(6):691-702. doi: 10.1001/jama.300.6.691. Erratum In: JAMA. 2010 May 26;303(20):2034.
- Kohrt BA, Kunz RD, Koirala NR. Validation of the Nepali version of beck anxiety inventory. Journal of Institute of Medicine. 2007 Jan 21;26(3).
- Linehan M. Cognitive-behavioral treatment of borderline personality disorder. Guilford press; 1993.
- Linehan MM. Skills training manual for treating borderline personality disorder. Guilford Press; 1993.
- Neacsiu AD, Rizvi SL, Vitaliano PP, Lynch TR, Linehan MM. The dialectical behavior therapy ways of coping checklist: development and psychometric properties. J Clin Psychol. 2010 Jun;66(6):563-82. doi: 10.1002/jclp.20685.
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- Pro00071881
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