Mahnoush Etminan Malek, Gisela Nyberg, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Emma Patterson, Åsa Norman
Children's experiences of participating in a school-based health promotion parental support programme - a qualitative study
BMC pediatrics
prior qualitative work internally displaced persons waraffected northern uganda showed significant mental health psychosocial problemsto assess effect locally feasible interventions depression anxiety conduct problem symptoms among adolescent survivors war displacement northern ugandaa randomized controlled trial may 2005 december 2005 314 adolescents aged 1417 years 2 camps internally displaced persons northern ugandalocally developed screening tools assessed effectiveness interventions reducing symptoms depression anxiety ameliorating conduct problems improving function among met study criteria randomly allocated 105 psychotherapybased intervention group interpersonal psychotherapy 105 activitybased intervention creative play 104 waitcontrol group individuals wait listed receive treatment study end intervention groups met weekly 16 weeks participants controls reassessed end studyprimary measure decrease score denoting improvement depression symptom scale secondary measures improvements scores anxiety conduct problem symptoms function scales depression anxiety conduct problems assessed using acholi psychosocial assessment instrument minimum score 32 lower limit clinically significant symptoms maximum scale score 105difference change adjusted mean score depression symptoms group interpersonal psychotherapy control groups 979 points 95 confidence interval ci 1661793 girls receiving group interpersonal psychotherapy showed substantial significant improvement depression symptoms compared controls 1261 points 95 ci 2092314 improvement among boys statistically significant 572 points 95 ci 186 1330 creative play showed effect depression severity 251 points 95 ci 1142 639 statistically different improvements anxiety either intervention group neither intervention improved conduct problem function scoresboth interventions locally feasible group interpersonal psychotherapy effective depression symptoms among adolescent girls affected war displacement interventions investigated assist adolescent boys population symptoms depressionclinicaltrialsgov identifier nct00280319