Hope Groups: Parenting and Mental Health Among Refugees in the Middle East

ConditionsMental Health Violence Against Children

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age18+

SponsorUniversity of Oxford

About this trial

This research is testing if 'Hope Groups' -- a psychosocial, mental health, parenting strengthening, and violence prevention support group program -- work to help Palestinian caregivers displaced by war.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Participant is living in one of our partner refugee camps.

Participant is a parent/caregiver for one or more child (of any age).

Participant is over the age of 18.

Participant has high, medium, or low literacy. (Note: This is in order to use our Hope Groups programme guide. Our team is concerned that individuals with no literacy would need more audio files, rather than just a text-driven participant guide. If Hope Groups demonstrate effectiveness in this pilot, investigators will have focus groups with low-literacy participants, to create a future version which is suitable for people of all literacy backgrounds.)

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Hope Groups
Behavioral
A 10-session psychosocial, mental health, parenting, and violence prevention support group of 8-12 parents/caregivers.

Treatment groups

490 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Hope Groups Intervention ArmExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: Wait-List Comparison GroupNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Violence Against Children

Violence Against Children, measured via the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for parents (ICAST-Parent). Answer options are reported on ordinal scales indicating no violence against children to frequent violence against children (0-3). Higher scores indicate higher levels of violence against children.

Time frame

All participants complete surveys at baseline and 6-weeks post-baseline (after completion of 10-session intervention). Participants in Wave 1-3 of the randomised roll-out trial additionally complete surveys at 6- and 12- months post-baseline.

2

Mental health

Mental health of parents/caregivers, measured via Patient Health Questionnaire - 4 (PHQ-4). Answer options are reported on ordinal scales ranging from 0-3. Higher scores indicate higher levels of depression/anxiety.

Time frame

All participants complete surveys at baseline and 6-weeks post-baseline (after completion of 10-session intervention). Participants in Wave 1-3 of the randomised roll-out trial additionally complete surveys at 6- and 12- months post-baseline.

Secondary outcomes

1

Parenting Practices

Parenting Practices, measured via Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ). Answer options are reported in days of occurrence in the past week (ranging 0-7). Higher levels indicate higher usage of positive parenting practices.

Time frame

All participants complete surveys at baseline and 6-weeks post-baseline (after completion of 10-session intervention). Participants in Wave 1-3 of the randomised roll-out trial additionally complete surveys at 6- and 12- months post-baseline.

2

Child behavioural issues

Child behavioural issues and child well-being, measured via Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI). Answers are reported on ordinal response scales ranging from 0-3. Higher scores indicate higher internalising and externalising problems in children.

Time frame

All participants complete surveys at baseline and 6-weeks post-baseline (after completion of 10-session intervention). Participants in Wave 1-3 of the randomised roll-out trial additionally complete surveys at 6- and 12- months post-baseline.

3

Post-traumatic growth

Post-traumatic growth is an important element of the mental health of parents/caregivers, measured via the Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory, which uses ordinal answer responses ranging from 1-5. Higher scores indicate higher levels of post-traumatic growth.

Time frame

All participants complete surveys at baseline and 6-weeks post-baseline (after completion of 10-session intervention). Participants in Wave 1-3 of the randomised roll-out trial additionally complete surveys at 6- and 12- months post-baseline.

Other outcomes

1

Blood Pressure

Caregiver/parent stress and caregiver/parent physical health, measured via blood pressure reading (in Jordan only)

Time frame

Baseline and 6-weeks post-baseline (after completion of 10-session intervention)

2

Caregiver Physical Health: Heart Rate

Caregiver/parent stress and caregiver/parent physical health, measured via heart rate reading (in Jordan only)

Time frame

Baseline and 6-weeks post-baseline (after completion of 10-session intervention).

Sponsors and contacts

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University of Oxford

Lead sponsor

Sanadak

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov