Community With Immigrants - a Step on the Road to Employment

University College Absalon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Attitude to Health; Health Knowledge; Practice

Treatments: Other: Standard integration program; Other: Standard integration program with social and health promoting intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04725487

UCAbsalon

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will investigate if a standard integration programme in combination with a social and health promoting intervention can increase health and well-being among refugee families and influence success with education and employment.

Full description

Increased health and well-being can lead to stronger motivation and ability to get involved in education or employment and thereby improve integration of refugee families.

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of various social and health promoting activities such as physical activity workshops, community gardening, entrepreneurship training, MindSpring course, family excursions and language education on health, well-being, social relations and success with job and education. Increased success with self-sufficiency can support action competence and play a key role in the integration process. Outcome measures are based on self-reporting, biological measures and municipal registry data.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult refugees aged 18 years and above
• Young refugees aged 13 -17 years
• Must have obtained Danish asylum and live in Naestved Municipality

Exclusion criteria

• Physical and/or mental illness which prevents the individual from participating in the integration program offered by Naestved Municipality
• Illness which does not allow collection of a venous blood sample and saliva sample.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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88 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard integration program with social and health promoting intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants follow the standard integration program offered by Naestved Municipality and participate in various social and health promoting activities in addition

Treatment:

Other: Standard integration program with social and health promoting intervention

Standard integration program

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants follow the standard integration program offered by Naestved Municipality

Treatment:

Other: Standard integration program