Status:

COMPLETED

Building and Sustaining Interventions for Children: Task-sharing Mental Health Care in Low-resource Settings

Lead Sponsor:

Duke University

Collaborating Sponsors:

University of Washington

Johns Hopkins University

Conditions:

Grief

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Eligibility:

All Genders

11-14 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The BASIC study will take place in Kanduyi/Bungoma South Sub-County, in western Kenya, and focuses on children orphaned by one or two parents. Growing evidence demonstrates that orphaned children in l...

Detailed Description

Building and Sustaining Interventions for Children (BASIC): Task-sharing mental health care in low-resource settings builds on our 15-year history of collaborations with research partners in Kenya, pr...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Child or young adolescent between the ages of 11 and 14 at the time of enrollment
  • Child lost one or both parents to death at least 6 months ago or later, and when the child was 4 years old or older
  • Child lives in the community with at least one adult guardian (18 years old or older)
  • Child is experiencing borderline or clinically significant levels of post-traumatic stress or childhood traumatic grief (as indicated by a score of 18 or higher on the Child Posttraumatic Stress Scale, or a score of 35 or higher on the Inventory of Complicated Grief)

Exclusion

  • Child has a known developmental or cognitive disability
  • Child attends private school
  • Child and family are about to move
  • Children who lost a parent less than 6 months ago (since they may be experiencing a normal grief reaction and may not necessarily be in need of the treatment for CTG)
  • Caregiver of the child refuses to participate
  • Lay counselor is not literate
  • Lay counselor does not have a mobile phone
  • Lay counselor refuses to serve as a counselor
  • Site leader refuses to allow their site to participate in the study

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2018

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 25 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

956 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03243396

Start Date

February 1 2018

End Date

January 25 2024

Last Update

April 1 2025

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ACE Africa

Bungoma, Bungoma County, Kenya