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Trauma and Truth Interventions (NET) Versus Conflict Resolution and Social Skills Trainings for Vulnerable Youths in Northern Uganda

NCT00893750 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 600

Last updated 2010-07-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

More than 300,000 children are fighting in armed conflicts all over the world. In Uganda an estimated number of 25,000 children have been abducted and forced to fight or work as porters and sex slaves on the side of the rebels during the conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government. Each year, thousands of former child soldiers have returned to their communities after they had fled or were freed from the rebels. It is well known that a high percentage of these youths are suffering from mental health problems. This could be one of the possible reasons why they are facing difficulties to reintegrate into their communities.

The main aim of the proposed project is two-fold. On the one hand, the investigators want to systematically explore the relationship between mental health and important variables for reintegration into the communities like aggression, hostility, feelings of revenge, compromises and conflict behaviour and readiness for reconciliation in formerly abducted and other vulnerable youth (orphans, child mothers and handicapped youths) in Northern Uganda. On the other hand, the investigators want to probe the efficacy of existing and newly developed interventions for formerly abducted and other vulnerable youths that are supposed to foster their mental well-being as well as their reintegration into the society and therewith are part of the long-term prevention of new conflicts in Northern Uganda.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

NET Truth Education

Individual Narrative Exposure and Truth Education in Groups

BEHAVIORAL

Conflict Resolution and Social Competence Skills

Conflict Resolution and Social Competence Skills in Groups

BEHAVIORAL

Traditional Ways of Coping

Methods Collected by Local Teachers to Help Vulnerable Children and Youths in Northern Uganda

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Konstanz

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-05-31
Primary Completion
2010-06-30

Countries

  • Uganda

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