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Addressing Mental Health Disparities in Refugee Children: A Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) Collaboration

NCT02562794 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 265

Last updated 2019-07-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will use CBPR mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative data collection) to conduct needs assessments and design and evaluate a core family-based intervention. Project activities will emphasize capacity building in two refugee communities resettled in Greater Boston-the Somali Bantu and the Bhutanese-actively engaging refugee community members, community advisory boards, services providers, and other stakeholders. Specific Aims are to: (1) deepen partnerships with the Somali Bantu and Bhutanese communities through co-leadership, capacity-building, and knowledge sharing; (2) collect and apply qualitative data to (a) prepare a needs assessment of mental health in children and adolescents, barriers to care, and services preferences with each target refugee group; (b) develop mental health/psychosocial assessments for refugee caregivers and children; (c) adapt the core components of a family-based strengthening intervention for use with refugees; and (3) conduct an 80-family pilot study to examine acceptability and sustainability of the intervention. Key outcomes will be reduced mental health symptoms among children and adolescents and improvement in caregiver-child relationships.

Conditions

  • Child/Adolescent Problems
  • Mental Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Family Strengthening Intervention-Refugees

This study aims to design a preventive intervention for at-risk refugee children and families. The intervention is focused on strengthening core family resources and promoting resilience and healthy parent-child interactions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Boston College

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Theresa Betancourt, ScD · Boston College

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2019-02-28
Completion
2019-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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