Piloting of Family UNited in Indonesia and Bangladesh

Family UNited: Piloting a new universal United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) family skills programme to improve child mental health, resilience and parenting skills in Indonesia and Bangladesh

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN99645405

Enrollment

120

Registered

2023-03-10

Start date

2019-07-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-05-19

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Conditions

Prevention of negative social outcomes Other

Interventions

In 2018, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) developed a family skills programme called ‘Strong Families’, which was tailored for challenged and humanitarian settings (selective level pre

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Primary caregiver with a child aged between 8 and 14 years old 2. Speaking Bangla/Bahasa 3. Willing to take part in the Family UNited programme (or the data collection only in the case of the control group in Indonesia) 4. Being in the town for the duration of the whole study and measurement meetings

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Having taken part in any other family skills training programme during the last 24 months 2. The primary caregiver and child lived separately from each other

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Child mental health measured through a paper-based questionnaire, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) at baseline (1 week before the start of the intervention), at 2 weeks after programme completion and then 6 weeks post-intervention 2. Parenting skills measured through a paper-based questionnaire, Parenting and Family Adjustment Scales (PAFAS) at baseline (1 week before the start of the intervention), at 2 weeks after programme completion and then 6 weeks post-intervention 3. Self-reported social-ecological resilience measured from children through the paper-based Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-R) at baseline (1 week before the start of the intervention), at 2 weeks after programme completion and then 6 weeks post-intervention 4. For stratification, demographic characteristics were collected using a paper-based Family Demographics Questionnaire at baseline	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Child mental health measured through a paper-based questionnaire, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) at baseline (1 week before the start of the intervention), at 2 weeks after programme completion and then 6 weeks post-intervention 2. Parenting skills measured through a paper-based questionnaire, Parenting and Family Adjustment Scales (PAFAS) at baseline (1 week before the start of the intervention), at 2 weeks after programme completion and then 6 weeks post-intervention 3. Self-reported social-ecological resilience measured from children through the paper-based Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-R) at baseline (1 week before the start of the intervention), at 2 weeks after programme completion and then 6 weeks post-intervention 4. For stratification, demographic characteristics were collected using a paper-based Family Demographics Questionnaire at baseline

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Participants with worse scores at baseline (regarded as families with more problems at baseline) were analysed separately for each of the subscales mentioned in the primary outcomes 2. Child mental health and child resilience results were compared by gender of the child before and 2 and 6 weeks after the intervention and compared between the 2 countries, and against the control group.	—

Countries

Bangladesh, Indonesia

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: May 22, 2026