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A Psychosocial Program Impact Evaluation in Jordan

13 januari 2021 uppdaterad av: Yale University

Measuring the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of a Scalable Program of Psychosocial Intervention for Refugee Youth

The study aims to deliver a robust pre-post evaluation of the wellbeing impacts of an innovative, brief, and scalable psychosocial intervention, delivered to refugee youth living in urban settlements in Jordan. The study was conducted using two waves of data collection: the first featured an intervention and a matched control group, the second featured a full randomized control trial.

Studieöversikt

Status

Avslutad

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljerad beskrivning

This study will provide a robust evaluation of the Mercy Corps 'Advancing Adolescents, No Lost Generation' program that targets stress alleviation in refugee youth (12-18 years) with specific measures of psychosocial stress, biological stress, and cognitive function.

Studietyp

Interventionell

Inskrivning (Faktisk)

817

Fas

  • Inte tillämpbar

Kontakter och platser

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Studieorter

  • Förenta staterna
    • Connecticut
      • New Haven, Connecticut, Förenta staterna, 05611
        • Yale University

Deltagandekriterier

Forskare letar efter personer som passar en viss beskrivning, så kallade behörighetskriterier. Några exempel på dessa kriterier är en persons allmänna hälsotillstånd eller tidigare behandlingar.

Urvalskriterier

Åldrar som är berättigade till studier

12 år till 18 år (Barn, Vuxen)

Tar emot friska volontärer

Ja

Kön som är behöriga för studier

Allt

Beskrivning

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Eligible and enrolled in Mercy Corps Advancing Adolescents program
  • Syrian refugee and Jordanian host-community youth residing in 4 urban centers in northern Jordan

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Not available for study recruitment (started sessions or deferred sessions before study start date).

Studieplan

Det här avsnittet ger detaljer om studieplanen, inklusive hur studien är utformad och vad studien mäter.

Hur är studien utformad?

Designdetaljer

  • Primärt syfte: Behandling
  • Tilldelning: Randomiserad
  • Interventionsmodell: Parallellt uppdrag
  • Maskning: Ingen (Open Label)

Vapen och interventioner

Deltagargrupp / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Experimentell: Advancing Adolescents
Received structured eight-week psychosocial sessions
Beteende: Advancing Adolescents
The "Advancing Adolescents" programme is a structured 8-week psychosocial intervention for adolescents in humanitarian crises, based on profound stress attunement processes. It features three elements that are widely viewed as important to support youth adjustment in contexts of complex emergencies: (i) safety: establishment of a 'safe space' within the community as a base for activities and site of protection; (ii) support: facilitation of social support and self-expression; and (iii) structured activities: access to scheduled group activities.
Inget ingripande: Control
Controls wait-listed for the intervention, matched for age and urban residence

Vad mäter studien?

Primära resultatmått

Resultatmått
Åtgärdsbeskrivning
Tidsram
Psychosocial Stress: Insecurity (Regional Measure)
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Insecurity was measured with The Human Insecurity (HI). This tool was developed for use in the West Bank (Ziadni, Hammoudeh et al. 2011, Hamayel, Ghandour et al. 2014). The 10-item scale is a 5-point Likert scale with scores expressed as percentages on a scale of 0-100. The HI covers issues such as worries regarding inability to obtain daily life necessities, losing a source of income, fears about the future, and family safety.
11 weeks
Psychosocial stress: Distress (Regional Measure)
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Distress was measured with the Human Distress scale (Hamayel & Ghandour, 2014), developed for use with conflict-affected adolescents in the West Bank. The 12-item scale is a 5-point Likert scale with scores expressed as percentages on a scale of 0-100. Sample items include, "To what extent have you felt worried," "To what extent did you feel humiliated," and "To what extent did you feel angry." Scores are presented as percentages (0-100%), with higher scores indicating greater distress.
11 weeks
Psychosocial Stress (International Measure)
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Stress was measured using the Arabic version of the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, Karmarck, & Mermelstein, 1983), validated with a Jordanian sample (Almadi, Cathers, Hamdan Mansour, & Chow, 2012). This 14-item, 5-point Likert scale measures perceived stress over the last month, with higher scores indicating greater stress. Items include, "How often have you been upset because of something that happened unexpectedly?" and "How often have you been able to control irritations in your life?" (reverse-scored) (1 = Never, 5 = Very often).
11 weeks

Sekundära resultatmått

Resultatmått
Åtgärdsbeskrivning
Tidsram
Mental Health Difficulties: Regional Measure
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Mental health was assessed using the 21-item Arab Youth Mental Health questionnaire (Mahfoud et al., 2011; Mahkoul et al., 2011). This measure includes questions such as, "During the last week I was upset", "During the last week I was bored and hated my life", and "During the last week, I was having a lot of headaches, stomach-aches, and nausea" (1 = Rarely, 3 = Always). Higher scores indicate more symptoms of anxiety and depression.
11 weeks
Mental Health Difficulties: International Measure
Tidsram: 11 weeks
The Arabic version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), a brief screening tool for psychiatric difficulties (Alyahri & Goodman, 2006) was used. The 20 items include emotional, conduct, and hyperactivity symptom scores (range 0-40). We summed score of the Arabic version of the SDQ subscales relating to hyperactivity, emotional symptoms, conduct problems, and peer problems (Alyahri & Goodman, 2006).
11 weeks
Prosocial Behavior: International Measure
Tidsram: 11 weeks
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Prosocial Score, which featured 5 items to assess prosociality was used. Items include "I try to be nice to other people. I care about their feelings" and "I am helpful if someone is hurt, upset, or feeling sick" (0 = Not true, 2 = Certainly true). Higher scores indicate greater prosociality.
11 weeks
Resilience: Cross-cultural Measure
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Resilience was measured using the CYRM-28 (Liebenberg et al., 2012; Ungar & Liebenberg, 2011), which had been translated and culturally grounded for use into Arabic. Responses ranged from 1 ("Not at all") to 5 ("A lot"), with higher scores indicating greater resilience.
11 weeks
Biological Stress: Cortisol
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Cortisol was obtained from immunoassays of scalp hair cortisol that provide useful measures of the altered activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Scalp hair is collected non-invasively (~100 strands, 0.5 cm area). This measure indicates chronic stress over the last month, and examined per individual for pre/post intervention levels. These analyses are being undertaken by Professor van Uum at Western Ontario University.
11 weeks
Biological Stress: Cell-mediated Immune Function
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Cell-mediated immune function was measured in field settings, using systemic suppression of immune function in response to chronic stress is measured via immunoassays for Epstein Barr Virus antibodies, in conjunction with C-Reactive Protein, from dried blood spots collected from pricking the finger with a sterile disposable lancet. Three drops of blood on filter paper are dried at room temperature, then frozen until lab assay. This measure reflects compromised immune response due to psychosocial stress over the past week, and examined per individual for pre/post intervention levels.
11 weeks
Cognitive function
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Cognitive function was assessed using tablet-based cognitive skill tasks, testing hippocampal function (long term memory) and prefrontal executive function. Children play short games (1-4 min each) during which they press the tablet in response to geometric shapes. Responses during game play are recorded and used to measure cognitive function.
11 weeks

Andra resultatmått

Resultatmått
Åtgärdsbeskrivning
Tidsram
Posttraumatic stress symptoms
Tidsram: 11 weeks
The Arabic version of the Child Revised Impact of Events Scale (CRIES-8, 4-point scale) was implemented to assess posttraumatic stress symptoms. Analysis will be on dimensional scores, noting that CRIES >17 points is predictive of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (http://www.childrenandwar.org).
11 weeks
Genetic markers of trauma and/or stress
Tidsram: 11 weeks
Genetic and epigenetic analyses in DNA will be undertaken from cheek swab samples to investigate the biological signatures of altered expressions of trauma and/or psychosocial stress. Whole-genome amplification of the extracted DNA will be used to generate maximum genetic data from the samples.
11 weeks

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Sponsor

Yale University

Samarbetspartners

University of Florida
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Harvard University
Queen Margaret University

Utredare

  • Huvudutredare: catherine panter-brick, PhD, Yale University

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Studieavstämningsdatum

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Studera stora datum

Studiestart

1 april 2015

Primärt slutförande (Faktisk)

1 september 2016

Avslutad studie (Faktisk)

1 april 2017

Studieregistreringsdatum

Först inskickad

21 december 2016

Först inskickad som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna

4 januari 2017

Första postat (Uppskatta)

6 januari 2017

Uppdateringar av studier

Senaste uppdatering publicerad (Faktisk)

15 januari 2021

Senaste inskickade uppdateringen som uppfyllde QC-kriterierna

13 januari 2021

Senast verifierad

1 januari 2021

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Andra studie-ID-nummer

  • 1502015359

Plan för individuella deltagardata (IPD)

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IPD-planbeskrivning

We are sharing the anonymized dataset with project collaborators, but only with other researchers upon explicit request.

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