An RCT of Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Sexually Exploited, War-affected Girls in the DRC

Queen's University Belfast

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Psychosocial Distress; Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms

Treatments: Behavioral: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01483261

PREC23-2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

To date, no RCT has examined the efficacy of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Sexually Exploited, War Affected Adolescent Girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This study seeks to fill this gap by designing, implementing and testing such an intervention using both an intervention and waiting list control group.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 10 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Suicidal ideation (irrespective of score on any other measure)

Exclusion criteria

• psychosis
• mental retardation
• inability to understand Swahili
• one standard deviation below the mean on every measure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Waiting List Control

No Intervention group