Transparent Communication to Improve Mental Wellbeing and Attitude Towards Reintegration

NCT ID: NCT07251478

Last Updated: 2025-11-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 74 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-12-10
• Study Completion Date: 2026-09-30

Brief Summary

Reintegrating those once affiliated with proscribed terrorist groups constitutes significant global challenges due to public stigma, poor awareness of reintegration programmes and resentment towards incentives provided to rehabilitated former members of such groups. Of central concern is the anxiety, trauma and depression suffered alongside distrust for reintegration programmes, including the genuine repentance of former members of the proscribed group. The implication is its risk in exacerbating reoffending. Yet, a gap exists to address this urgent problem. The proposed study seeks to test and pilot the feasibility and acceptability of a novel intervention called Prosociality, Empathy and Awareness Communication to aid rEintegration (PEACE) in improving mental well-being and public attitude towards reintegration. The intervention is a low-intensity intervention lasting approximately 3-5 minutes design to create awareness on the rationale behind reintegration programme, reduce anxiety, depression and foster positive attitude towards reintegration.

Conditions

Depression; Anxiety; Trauma; Stress; Trauma, Psychological

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Prosociality, Empathy and Awareness Communication to aid rEintegration (PEACE)

The Prosociality, Empathy and Awareness Communication to aid rEintegration (PEACE) intervention is a low-intensity intervention lasting 3-5 minutes.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Prosociality, Empathy and Awareness Communication to aid rEintegration (PEACE)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The Prosociality, Empathy and Awareness Communication to aid rEintegration (PEACE) intervention is a low-intensity intervention lasting 3-5 minutes. The intervention is underpinned by awareness creation, reducing depression and anxiety and the purpose of reintegration programme to encourage change in negative attitudes towards reintegration. The recorded message introduction will commence with a welcome address on the topic, and this is followed by the core message and a closing remark. The core message is composed of three key ambits: 1) emphasizing mental health and welbeing alongside the importance of the reintegration programme, the rationale behind the reintegration programme, including the provision of incentives to dissuade reoffending, (ii) the need for empathy, prosociality, and positive social identity and advantages of reintegration and (iii) calling on the public to forgive and accept them back. The programme will end with a thank you to the audience for listening.

Control - Waitlist Group

The control group will not receive an intervention until after the assessment periods at baseline (day 1), and end of intervention (day 2) before they will be administered the PEACE intervention.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Prosociality, Empathy and Awareness Communication to aid rEintegration (PEACE)

The Prosociality, Empathy and Awareness Communication to aid rEintegration (PEACE) intervention is a low-intensity intervention lasting 3-5 minutes. The intervention is underpinned by awareness creation, reducing depression and anxiety and the purpose of reintegration programme to encourage change in negative attitudes towards reintegration. The recorded message introduction will commence with a welcome address on the topic, and this is followed by the core message and a closing remark. The core message is composed of three key ambits: 1) emphasizing mental health and welbeing alongside the importance of the reintegration programme, the rationale behind the reintegration programme, including the provision of incentives to dissuade reoffending, (ii) the need for empathy, prosociality, and positive social identity and advantages of reintegration and (iii) calling on the public to forgive and accept them back. The programme will end with a thank you to the audience for listening.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years and above
• Able to provide full consent for their participation.
• A resident of the study areas

Exclusion Criteria

• Less than 18 years
• Unable to consent
• Currently undergoing severe mental health treatment
• Unable to speak the English language fluently

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Jos University Teaching Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Manchester

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Teesside University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Tarela Ike

Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Tarela J Ike, PhD

Role: CONTACT

T.ike@tees.ac.uk

0164234231

Dung E Jidong, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Dung.jidong@manchester.ac.uk

References

Owonikoko, S. B. (2022). "Take them to government house or Aso Rock": Community receptivity to reintegration of operation safe corridor's deradicalised Ex-Boko Haram members in Northeastern Nigeria. Cogent Social Sciences, 8(1), 2015884.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

Abdullahi, I., & Onabanjo, H. (2024). Reintegration of ex-combatants and peacebuilding in terrorised communities in northeastern Nigeria. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 9 (7), 2283, 2307.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

Other Identifiers

0000-0003-0516-0313g

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id