Anxiety, Depression, Fear, Trauma
Conditions
Brief summary
The project aims to make significant contributions that change the conversation in communities and policy circles through promoting knowledge of nonviolent peace strategies using the Group integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT) to help heal trauma, improve peace, and encourage positive rehabilitation and reintegration of former Boko Haram terrorists' members and their families.
Detailed description
The main question it aims to answer are: • What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with Gi-CBT to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of of former Boko Haram terrorists' members and their families.into society? Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Group integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of GiCBT. Researchers will compare Gi-CBT group with the media orientation group to see if there are differences between a change in attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration at base line, end of intervention and three months follow up.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALGi-CBT
Gi-CBT designed to cover relevant aspects of tackling trauma, and the CBT component will involve addressing negative thoughts, building more positive ones and building resilience.
OTHERMedia Orientation
The MO sessions will embed media content to create awareness of the government's approaches to reintegration.
Sponsors
Coal City University
Teesside University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. community members who had previous experience of trauma as a result of Boko Haram atrocities, score 5 and above for the culturally-adapted Trauma Screening Questionnaire (Brewinn et al., 2002) 2. are aged 18+ years and above 3. are residents of the designated areas including Bornu (Maiduguri), and its environs.
Exclusion criteria
* those not meeting the study inclusion criteria will be excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Service Satisfaction Scale | Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention] | Change in service satisfaction is being assessed |
| PHQ-9 | Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention] | Change in Depressive Symptoms |
| The Attitude Towards Repentant Terrorist and their Reintegration scale | Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention] | Change in attitude towards reintegration |
| Trauma Screening Questionnaire | Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention | Change in traumatic experience is being assessed |
Outcome results
None listed