Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
WASH App
ParentApp for Teens
Sponsors
University of Oxford
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: For caregivers, inclusion criteria are: aged 18 years or older primary caregiver of an adolescent aged 10–17 years living in the same household at least 4 nights per week in the past month basic literacy, defined at screening as reporting they can read “with a little difficulty” or “easily” willing to participate in either the ParentApp or WASH control programme able to provide written and/or oral informed consent. For adolescents, inclusion criteria are: aged 10–17 years dependent of a caregiver who meets the caregiver eligibility criteria and is enrolled in the trial able to provide written and/or oral assent have caregiver written and/or oral consent for participation.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: caregivers who report they cannot read at all or can read only with lots of difficulty any participant with severe mental health problems or acute mental disabilities that prevent provision of informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Child maltreatment - physical and emotional abuse, measured using ICAST-Trial Caregiver and Child Versions Physical Abuse and Emotional Abuse subscales. ;Sexual violence victimisation - adolescent only, using ICAST-Trial Child Versions of Contact and Non-Contact Sexual Abuse subscale, Alcohol-Facilitated Forced Sex, WHO’s Violence Against Women Instrument Transactional Sex item and Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children’s Disrupting Harm project instrument. ;Sexual violence vulnerability, caregiver and adolescent, using CDC Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys, and a locally derived sexual violence vulnerability scale developed through consultation with families and practitioners. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Parental supervision, inconsistent discipline, positive parenting, positive involved parenting, Alabama Parenting Questionnaire subscales ;Child Neglect, ICAST-Trial Caregiver and Child Versions Neglect subscale;Caregiver and Adolescent attitudes to physical punishment, UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) 5 Child Discipline module;Sexual violence victimisation risk planning, Scale developed for a PLH RCT in South Africa, single item;Intimate partner violence experience - caregiver and adolescent, IPV perpetration - caregiver report only, WHO’s Violence Against Women Instrument;Witnessing family violence - adolescent report only, ICAST-Trial Child Version;Gender equitable behaviours - caregiver report only, Survey developed by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); used in an RCT of a violence prevention intervention in Tanzania ;Caregiver and adolescent attitudes towards gender roles, Attitudes toward gender roles section of the WHO Multi-Country Study on Domestic Violence ;Caregiver support for school, Parent involvement and support of education;Parent communication, Fast Track Intervention Study’s Parent-Child Communication Scale;Economic hardship, using monthly shortfalls of basic necessities;Financial self-efficacy and family financial management, using Items on borrowing, saving, and budgeting. ;Parenting stress, Parental Stress Scale;Mental Health Distress, Patient Health Questionnaire 4 ;Social support, Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey ;Sexual risk behaviour - adolescent report only, CDC Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys, South African Demographic and Health Survey | — |
Countries
Tanzania
Contacts
Public ContactKristen De Graaf
University of Oxford Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Outcome results
None listed