Effectiveness of Group Focused Psychosocial Support for Adults Affected by Humanitarian Crises

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

611 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-11-25

Study Completion Date

2019-09-30

Brief Summary

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This is an effectiveness study of group problem management plus, a low-intensity psychological intervention, delivered in five sessions to adults affected by humanitarian crises. The current study will evaluate the effectiveness of Group Problem Management Plus (PM+).

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Detailed Description

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Counselling programmes used in many humanitarian settings are often non- specific with unknown efficacy and safety. Only a few interventions in humanitarian crises have been rigorously tested, and most studied interventions focused on posttraumatic stress disorder. Beyond posttraumatic stress disorder, individuals may have a range of problems including depression, anxiety, and not being able to do daily tasks necessary for survival and recovery. However, interventions are often limited since they tend to target only a single outcome, are usually of longer duration (8-16 sessions) or require professionals.

In low resourced settings interventions need to be short of duration, and be carried out by lay people in the communities to make them sustainable and feasible to implement on a broader scale. World Health Organization aims to develop a range of low-intensity scale-able psychological interventions that address these issues, as part of its mental health Gap Action Program. As a first step a simplified psychological intervention Problem Management Plus (PM+) has been developed. It has 4 core features that make the intervention suitable for low resourced setting exposed to adversities. First, it is brief intervention (5-sessions), delivered individually or in groups; second, it can be delivered by paraprofessionals (high school graduates with no mental health experience), using the principle of task shifting/ task sharing; third, it is designed as a trans- diagnostic intervention, addressing a range of client identified emotional (e.g. depression, anxiety, traumatic stress, general stress) and practical problems; fourth, it is designed for people in low-income country communities affected by any kind of adversity (e.g. violence, disasters), not just focusing on a single kind of adversity. Recent PM+ trails in Pakistan and Kenya have indicated PM+ to be effective in diminishing depression and anxiety and improving people's functioning and self- selected, culturally relevant outcomes. Group PM+ has been piloted in a district in Nepal, which was affected by the 2015 earthquakes. The pilot was conducted to gather information about the feasibility, safety and delivery of the intervention in the Nepali community settings; and to identify issues around training, supervision and outcomes measures. The pilot trial was successful in terms of acceptability and feasibility and detecting possible problems of compliance, delivery of the intervention, recruitment and retention. The current definitive study will evaluate the effectiveness of Group PM+ in Nepal through a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

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Depression Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychological Distress

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Group problem management plus

Five sessions of group low intensity psychological intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Group problem management plus

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Low intensity group psychological intervention including stress management, behavioral activation, problem solving, and strengthening social support

Enhanced treatment as usual

Referral to primary health care workers trained in mental health Gap Action Programme.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Enhanced treatment as usual

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Referral to primary care workers trained in mental health Gap Action Program Implementation Guide

Interventions

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Group problem management plus

Low intensity group psychological intervention including stress management, behavioral activation, problem solving, and strengthening social support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced treatment as usual

Referral to primary care workers trained in mental health Gap Action Program Implementation Guide

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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mental health Gap Action Program-Implementation Guide

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. score YES to heart-mind problems on heart-mind screener
2. score \>16 on World Health Organization Disability Assessment Scale

Exclusion Criteria

1. Presence of a severe mental disorder (e.g., psychosis)
2. Alcohol use disorder (score \>16 on the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT)

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No