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
Active Locations (1)
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ACE Africa
Bungoma, Bungoma County, Kenya