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Intervention to Support the Reintegration of Former Combatants and Soldiers

NCT01624987 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2013-07-30

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Summary

The project aims to investigate if trauma-related disorders and appetitive aggression can be reduced in former ex-combatants in DR Congo when a specific intervention (Narrative Exposure Therapy for Forensic Offender Rehabilitation, FORNET) is delivered by trained local personnel (phase 1). In a second step, the project aims to investigates the treatment success if this specific therapy is carried out by local personnel who have been trained by other local personnel ("train the trainer", phase 2) under the supervision of experts of the University of Konstanz.

Conditions

  • Appetitive Aggression
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

NET for Forensic Offender Rehabilitation (FORNET): a variant of Narrative Exposure Therapy

During the proposed therapy, the client constructs a chronological narrative of his or her whole life which includes all traumatic experiences and perpetrated violent acts. All emotions, cognitions, sensory information, and physiological reactions are activated and linked to the autobiographical context.In five sessions the trained therapist and the client try to go through all important traumatic experiences and perpetrated violent acts. The sixth session is a group session with four to five clients. The group session is oriented on Interpersonal Psychotherapy and focuses on the role change from soldier to civilian.

OTHER

Control group

The control group receives no intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • World Bank

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Konstanz

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Elbert, Prof. Dr. · University of Konstanz

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2014-02-28

Countries

  • Republic of the Congo

Study Locations

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