Evaluation of Play and Care Together (PACT) Implementation

Aga Khan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychosocial Wellbeing; Resilience; Peer Problem

Treatments: Behavioral: PACT Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05590975

2022-7690-22673

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of PACT intervention in improving resilience, life skills, and psychosocial skills among children and peer supporters. The evaluation will be carried out in the Public Schools of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Full description

Right to Play is a non-governmental organization that offers play-based life skills education in public schools of Pakistan. This project aim to improve psychosocial wellbeing, resilience and social and emotional life skills of students enrolled in secondary schools of Lyari in Karachi South, Sindh, Pakistan through "Play and Act Together (PACT)" curriculum. The Aga Khan University will evaluate effectiveness of their intervention that will be offered in public schools of Karachi. Data will be collected from grade 6 students(children) and grade 7 or 8 peer supporters at baseline, midline and endline of the study. Moreover, throughout PACT intervention, fidelity monitoring would be ensured randomly for 3 sessions out of 10 through a checklist to evaluate accuracy of PACT intervention delivered. Furthermore, feasibility checklist would be filled by each participant at the end of the study to analyze the satisfaction, feasibility of PACT intervention and important learnings from PACT curriculum. After the intervention, focus group discussion will took place to learn about the experiences of children, peer supporters and adult coaches who received PACT intervention.

Enrollment: 212 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Have not participated in previous Right to Play activities
• Voluntarily agree to participate in this program in 2022-23
• More than 30 students in grades 6 enrolled
• A safe playing area (either indoors or outdoors)
• Only Boy or Only girl school
• Sindh Literacy and Education Department direct administration
• Children of grade 6 age 12-15 years
• Children who give assent to participate
• Parents who give consent to participate their children

Exclusion criteria

• Schools who does not give consent to participate
• Children who do not give assent
• Parents who do not give consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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212 participants in 3 patient groups

Peer Supporter and Adult coach intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group will receive PACT module through peer supporters and adult coaches

Treatment:

Behavioral: PACT Intervention

Adult coach intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group will receive PACT module through adult coaches only

Treatment:

Behavioral: PACT Intervention

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group will receive PACT intervention after the completion of intervention and evaluation with 1st PACT intervention arm.