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Addressing Mental Health Disparities in Refugee Children

NCT03796065 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 354

Last updated 2023-02-08

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Summary

The proposed study will employ a cross-cultural Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach to build from prior needs assessments and mixed-methods research to evaluate the effectiveness of the Family Strengthening Intervention for Refugees (FSI-R), a preventative family home-based visiting intervention intended to mitigate mental health disparities among refugee children and families using a hybrid implementation-effectiveness design. Results of the investigator's trial will expand the evidence-base on community-based interventions for refugees and has the potential to be replicated to reduce mental health disparities affecting diverse groups of refugee children and families.

Conditions

  • Family Research

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

FSI-R Treatment

The FSI-R involves a series of separate and joint meetings with parents and children to discuss challenges the family has faced and the strengths that helped them make it through past challenging times. Additional psychoeducation on mental health and promoting resilience along with coaching to enhance parenting skills is provided throughout and may be tailored to family needs. The FSI-R provides a shared space for refugee families both to recognize their strengths and to problem-solve in a more collective way on family challenges and shared hopes for the future. The FSI-R is delivered in the home, by a trained interventionist, over the course of 10-modules.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Boston College

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Theresa Betancourt, ScD · Boston College

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-27
Primary Completion
2022-06-30
Completion
2022-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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