Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support

Summary

The goal of this project is to test tools that will be part of a platform for training and supervision of mental health and psychosocial support helpers, including providers without specialized training in mental health. This platform, entitled Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support, is an online resource being developed to include: materials for evaluating core and specific competencies, training on core competencies, implementation guidance to conduct competency-based training. The Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support platform is designed to aid trainers and supervisors working with providers being trained to deliver World Health Organization and non-World Health Organization low-intensity psychological interventions. The research will address two study objectives: Objective 1. Determine feasibility, acceptability, and perceived utility of the Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support platform; Objective 2. Evaluate the reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change of Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support competency assessment tools. To maximize generalizability of findings, Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support will be evaluated in seven countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Lebanon, Peru, Uganda, Zambia and Jordan. The sites are varied by types of psychological intervention, beneficiaries, experience of trainers, and background of trainees. In each site, trainers will train non-specialist providers on a low-intensity psychological intervention.

Conditions

• Psychological Distress
• Depression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support

Trainees are evaluated with the Enhancing Assessment of Common Therapeutic factors structured role play tool and the results are shared with trainers and/or supervisors to modify training based on strengths and weakness on the competency scores.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Training and Supervision

Trainees are trained using a manual for non-specialist-delivered psychological interventions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• World Health Organization

  collaborator OTHER

• The Center for Victims of Torture, United States

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Washington

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Nairobi

  collaborator OTHER

• War Child Holland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Socios En Salud Sucursal, Peru

  collaborator OTHER

• University of South Florida

  collaborator OTHER

• HealthRight International

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Johns Hopkins University

  collaborator OTHER

• Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

  collaborator OTHER

• The University of New South Wales

  collaborator OTHER

• George Washington University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Alison Schafer, PhD · World Health Organization

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

TRIPLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

10 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-06-20

Primary Completion

2021-12-31

Completion

2021-12-31

Countries

• Ethiopia
• Jordan
• Kenya
• Lebanon
• Peru
• Uganda
• Zambia

Study Locations