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Peer Support Intervention to Mitigate Social Isolation and Stigma of Adolescent Motherhood in Zimbabwe

31 janvier 2022 mis à jour par: Chiwoneso Tinago, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Community-Based Peer Support Intervention to Mitigate Social Isolation and Stigma of Adolescent Motherhood in Harare, Zimbabwe

A community-based peer support intervention for adolescent mothers aged 14-18 years in Harare, Zimbabwe was developed and tested in partnership with adolescent mothers, community health workers, and key community stakeholders. The intervention leveraged peer support, technology via WhatsApp Messenger, community health workers, peer educators and involvement of key community stakeholders to reduce prevalence of loneliness, depressive symptoms and common mental disorders, improve perceived social support, and develop coping, parenting, and communication skills to mitigate potential stressors and stigma of adolescent motherhood.

Aperçu de l'étude

Statut

Complété

Les conditions

Intervention / Traitement

Description détaillée

Adolescent mothers in Zimbabwe often experience stigma and feel isolated due to lack of social support with a loss of social networks and educational opportunities. Adolescent mothers may also lack coping skills and resources to successfully navigate motherhood. Unless addressed, these circumstances may have negative consequences for the mental health of the adolescent mother and downstream consequences for their children. A quasi-experimental design was used, and the research tested differential changes over base-, mid-, and end-line in mental health and social support outcomes among adolescent mothers (14-18 years) in the intervention and control arms. The study addressed two objectives:

  1. Understand and describe perceptions and experiences with adolescent motherhood and their influence on health.
  2. Explore the acceptability and effectiveness of a community-based peer support intervention for adolescent mothers in a high-density low-income community in Harare to mitigate potential stressors and stigma of adolescent motherhood.

Adolescent mothers engaged as active participants in the development (e.g., defining their needs) and implementation of the intervention which also involved key community stakeholders to address stigma related to mental illness and adolescent motherhood. Existing community resources were leveraged such as peer support, health workers, and technology through WhatsApp Messenger, a popular and low-cost messaging app, to deliver some intervention components and as a platform for communication and training support for peer support group facilitators. Community health workers and peer educators in the intervention arm were recruited and trained on co-facilitating peer support groups. The intervention arm (n=104 adolescent mothers) participated in the peer support groups and completed sociodemographic, base-, mid-, and end-line surveys. The control arm (n=79 adolescent mothers) completed sociodemographic, base-, mid- and end-line surveys. Peer support groups (12 groups with 6-12 participants in each group) met in-person twice a month and completed 12 peer-group sessions from May-August 2019 addressing participant identified topics such as income generation, depression, and healthy parenting. WhatsApp Messenger was used for training and implementation support. Key community stakeholders met to discuss project progress and recommendations to improve the health of adolescent mothers. Data were analyzed using Stata 13 software.

Type d'étude

Interventionnel

Inscription (Réel)

183

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts et emplacements

Cette section fournit les coordonnées de ceux qui mènent l'étude et des informations sur le lieu où cette étude est menée.

Lieux d'étude

  • États-Unis
    • Pennsylvania
      • West Chester, Pennsylvania, États-Unis, 19383
        • West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Critères de participation

Les chercheurs recherchent des personnes qui correspondent à une certaine description, appelée critères d'éligibilité. Certains exemples de ces critères sont l'état de santé général d'une personne ou des traitements antérieurs.

Critère d'éligibilité

Âges éligibles pour étudier

14 ans à 18 ans (Enfant, Adulte)

Accepte les volontaires sains

Non

Sexes éligibles pour l'étude

Femelle

La description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant and/or have a child or children) aged 14-18 years living in the intervention or control communities.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals who are not adolescent mothers aged 14-18 years and who do not live in the intervention or control communities.
  • individuals with an acute or severe illness or disability (e.g. psychosis) that results in a functional impairment that substantially interferes with the ability to provide informed consent and participate in the study.

Plan d'étude

Cette section fournit des détails sur le plan d'étude, y compris la façon dont l'étude est conçue et ce que l'étude mesure.

Comment l'étude est-elle conçue ?

Détails de conception

  • Objectif principal: La prévention
  • Répartition: Non randomisé
  • Modèle interventionnel: Affectation parallèle
  • Masquage: Aucun (étiquette ouverte)

Armes et Interventions

Groupe de participants / Bras
Intervention / Traitement
Expérimental: Intervention
The intervention arm (n=104 adolescent mothers) participated in the 12 in-person peer support group sessions and completed sociodemographic, base-, mid-, and end-line surveys.
Comportemental: Young Women of Today
Adolescent mothers engaged in the development and implementation of the intervention which also involved key community stakeholders to address stigma related to mental illness and adolescent motherhood. Community health workers and peer educators in the intervention arm were recruited and trained on co-facilitating peer support groups. The intervention arm (n=104 adolescent mothers) participated in the peer support groups and completed sociodemographic, base-, mid-, and end-line surveys. The control arm (n=79 adolescent mothers) completed sociodemographic, base-, mid- and end-line surveys. Peer support groups (12 groups with 6-12 participants in each group) met in-person twice a month and completed 12 peer-group sessions from May-August 2019 addressing participant identified topics such as depression. WhatsApp Messenger was used for training and implementation support. Key community stakeholders met to discuss project progress and recommendations to improve adolescent mothers' health.
Autres noms:
  • Community-based Peer Support Intervention to Mitigate Social Isolation and Stigma of Adolescent Motherhood in Harare, Zimbabwe
Aucune intervention: Control
The control arm (n=79 adolescent mothers) completed sociodemographic, base-, mid- and end-line surveys.

Que mesure l'étude ?

Principaux critères de jugement

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation
Délai: 6 months
Change from baseline to endline in depressive symptoms and suicide ideation using the Patient Health Questionnaire, a validated 9-item tool utilized to screen, diagnose, monitor, and measure depression severity and suicide ideation. The scoring of the questionnaire is as follows: 0-4 minimal depression, 5-9 mild depression, 10-14 moderate depression, 15-19 moderately severe depression, 20-27 severe depression. Thus higher scores mean a worse outcome.
6 months
Perceived Social Support
Délai: 6 months
Change from baseline to endline in perceived social support using the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support a validated scale that measures perceived social support among participants' friends, family and significant others.This scale has 12 items used to assess social support using a Likert scale. The scale measures social support from three categories: family, friends, and significant other. Results ranging from 1 to 2.9 could be considered low support; a score of 3 to 5 could be considered moderate support; a score from 5.1 to 7 could be considered high support. Thus higher scores mean a better outcome.
6 months

Mesures de résultats secondaires

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
Common Mental Disorders
Délai: 6 months
Change from baseline to endline in common mental disorders using the 14-item Shona Symptom Questionnaire, a culturally appropriate common mental disorders screening tool. Participants scoring 7 or below are defined as not having a common mental disorder. Participants scoring 8 or more are defined as having a common mental disorder. Thus higher scores mean a worse outcome.
6 months
Peer and Significant Adult Support
Délai: 6 months
Change from baseline to endline in peer and significant adult support using the Peer and Significant Adult Support Survey, which was developed by the research team. Using a Likert scale of 0 (not at all), 1 (some of the time), 2 (most of the time), and 3 (all the time) to measure perceived social support from peers and significant adults, a higher score means a better outcome.
6 months

Collaborateurs et enquêteurs

C'est ici que vous trouverez les personnes et les organisations impliquées dans cette étude.

Parrainer

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Collaborateurs

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
University of South Carolina
University of Zimbabwe
Organization for Public Health Interventions and Development
SpeakUp! Pennsylvania

Les enquêteurs

  • Chercheur principal: Chiwoneso Tinago, PhD, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Dates d'enregistrement des études

Ces dates suivent la progression des dossiers d'étude et des soumissions de résultats sommaires à ClinicalTrials.gov. Les dossiers d'étude et les résultats rapportés sont examinés par la Bibliothèque nationale de médecine (NLM) pour s'assurer qu'ils répondent à des normes de contrôle de qualité spécifiques avant d'être publiés sur le site Web public.

Dates principales de l'étude

Début de l'étude (Réel)

1 octobre 2018

Achèvement primaire (Réel)

30 septembre 2019

Achèvement de l'étude (Réel)

30 septembre 2019

Dates d'inscription aux études

Première soumission

5 janvier 2022

Première soumission répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité

16 janvier 2022

Première publication (Réel)

28 janvier 2022

Mises à jour des dossiers d'étude

Dernière mise à jour publiée (Réel)

15 février 2022

Dernière mise à jour soumise répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité

31 janvier 2022

Dernière vérification

1 janvier 2022

Plus d'information

Termes liés à cette étude

Mots clés

Termes MeSH pertinents supplémentaires

Autres numéros d'identification d'étude

  • 20180723A

Plan pour les données individuelles des participants (IPD)

Prévoyez-vous de partager les données individuelles des participants (DPI) ?

Non

Informations sur les médicaments et les dispositifs, documents d'étude

Étudie un produit pharmaceutique réglementé par la FDA américaine

Non

Étudie un produit d'appareil réglementé par la FDA américaine

Non

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