A Psychosocial Program Impact Evaluation in Jordan

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Impairment; Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: Advancing Adolescents

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03012451

1502015359

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to deliver a robust pre-post evaluation of the wellbeing impacts of an innovative, brief, and scalable psychosocial intervention, delivered to refugee youth living in urban settlements in Jordan. The study was conducted using two waves of data collection: the first featured an intervention and a matched control group, the second featured a full randomized control trial.

Full description

This study will provide a robust evaluation of the Mercy Corps 'Advancing Adolescents, No Lost Generation' program that targets stress alleviation in refugee youth (12-18 years) with specific measures of psychosocial stress, biological stress, and cognitive function.

Enrollment: 817 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligible and enrolled in Mercy Corps Advancing Adolescents program
• Syrian refugee and Jordanian host-community youth residing in 4 urban centers in northern Jordan

Exclusion criteria

• Not available for study recruitment (started sessions or deferred sessions before study start date).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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817 participants in 2 patient groups

Advancing Adolescents

Experimental group

Description:

Received structured eight-week psychosocial sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Advancing Adolescents

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Controls wait-listed for the intervention, matched for age and urban residence