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

31. januar 2022 oppdatert av: 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.

Studieoversikt

Status

Fullført

Forhold

Intervensjon / Behandling

Detaljert beskrivelse

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.

Studietype

Intervensjonell

Registrering (Faktiske)

183

Fase

  • Fase 2

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Studiesteder

  • Forente stater
    • Pennsylvania
      • West Chester, Pennsylvania, Forente stater, 19383
        • West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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Kvalifikasjonskriterier

Alder som er kvalifisert for studier

14 år til 18 år (Barn, Voksen)

Tar imot friske frivillige

Nei

Kjønn som er kvalifisert for studier

Hunn

Beskrivelse

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.

Studieplan

Denne delen gir detaljer om studieplanen, inkludert hvordan studien er utformet og hva studien måler.

Hvordan er studiet utformet?

Designdetaljer

  • Primært formål: Forebygging
  • Tildeling: Ikke-randomisert
  • Intervensjonsmodell: Parallell tildeling
  • Masking: Ingen (Open Label)

Våpen og intervensjoner

Deltakergruppe / Arm
Intervensjon / Behandling
Eksperimentell: 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.
Atferdsmessig: 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.
Andre navn:
  • Community-based Peer Support Intervention to Mitigate Social Isolation and Stigma of Adolescent Motherhood in Harare, Zimbabwe
Ingen inngripen: Control
The control arm (n=79 adolescent mothers) completed sociodemographic, base-, mid- and end-line surveys.

Hva måler studien?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation
Tidsramme: 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
Tidsramme: 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

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Common Mental Disorders
Tidsramme: 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
Tidsramme: 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

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Sponsor

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Samarbeidspartnere

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

Etterforskere

  • Hovedetterforsker: Chiwoneso Tinago, PhD, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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Studer hoveddatoer

Studiestart (Faktiske)

1. oktober 2018

Primær fullføring (Faktiske)

30. september 2019

Studiet fullført (Faktiske)

30. september 2019

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først innsendt

5. januar 2022

Først innsendt som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

16. januar 2022

Først lagt ut (Faktiske)

28. januar 2022

Oppdateringer av studieposter

Sist oppdatering lagt ut (Faktiske)

15. februar 2022

Siste oppdatering sendt inn som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

31. januar 2022

Sist bekreftet

1. januar 2022

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Ytterligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre studie-ID-numre

  • 20180723A

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