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Psycho-social Support on Mental Health and Hope of Adolescents Affected by Earthquake in Nepal

NCT03387007 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1912

Last updated 2017-12-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Adolescents are prone to mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression which could become worse in the aftermath of disasters. However, hope can help adolescents cope with the challenges better. For resource poor disaster prone settings, school teachers can provide timely psycho-social support that could improve mental health and hope among adolescents.

Nepal is a disaster prone country that faced a devastating earthquake in 2015 that claimed thousands of lives and left many homeless which could have affected the mental health of adolescents.This study was conducted in schools of Dhading, a severely earthquake affected district and schools of Myagdi, a least affected district by earthquake in Nepal. The intervention focused on training school teachers on psycho-social support for adolescents.

Conditions

  • Mental Health Issue (E.G., Depression, Psychosis, Personality Disorder, Substance Abuse)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychosocial support training for school teachers

The intervention for this study was schoolteachers' training on psychosocial support.A clinical psychologist provided 2-day training (a total of 16 hours) training on psychosocial support for the schoolteachers

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tokyo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rolina Dhital, MHSc · Tokyo University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-06-30
Primary Completion
2017-03-31
Completion
2017-12-31

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