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Improving Care and Preventing Maltreatment of Orphans

NCT03594617 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 374

Last updated 2020-05-08

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Summary

Sub-Saharan Africa, with more than 56 million orphans worldwide, is the most affected region in terms of orphans to be cared for (UNICEF, 2014). The recently developed preventative approach Interaction Competencies with Children - for Caregivers (ICC-C; Hecker, Mkinga, Ssenyonga, \& Hermenau, 2017) trains the essential interaction skills in working with children. The focus here is on strengthening a warm, sensitive and reliable relationship between caregiver and child as well as on non-violent education strategies. In a first pilot study the feasibility of the approach icould be demonstrated (Hermenau, Kaltenbach, Mkinga, \& Hecker, 2015).

The study applies a two-arm cluster-randomized controlled design. The participating institutions will be randomly divided into intervention and control bodies. The follow-up examination should take place three months after the intervention. All caregivers in facility (N = approx. 150) and 25 randomly selected children (age: 6-12) per facility (N = 200) will be included in this study.

Conditions

  • Maltreatment, Child

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interaction Competencies with Children - for Caregiver

Interaction Competencies with Children - for Caregiver (ICC-C) aims to reduce maltreatment and to improve care quality in institutional care facilities. Following the idea of a train-the-trainer approach, ICC-C is designed to be delivered by trained local facilitators. ICC-C is based on attachment, behavioral and social learning theories. The key principles are its feasibility in low-resource contexts, participatory approach, and practical orientation. ICC-C includes sessions on (a) caregiver-child interaction, (b) maltreatment prevention, (c) effective non-violent caregiving strategies, and (d) identifying and supporting burdened children.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bielefeld University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Dar es Salaam University College of Education

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Konstanz

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tobias Hecker, PhD · Bielefeld University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-14
Primary Completion
2019-07-01
Completion
2020-04-30

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

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