Table 2.
| Authors, year | Setting | Design | Study conditions and evidence base |
Evidence base for treatment |
Participants | Providers | Outcomes assessed |
Conflict affected description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Bass et al, 2013 | DRC, South Kivu; | Randomized controlled trial |
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CPT has multiple RCT from the U.S. | Adults | Psychosocial assistants employed by NGO. | Trauma, Depression Functioning Anxiety | Sexual violence survivors, exposure to ongoing rebel violence in their villages. |
| Community based with services provided in rural settings | Previous training in case mgmt and supportive counseling | |||||||
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| Bolton et al., (submitted) | Thailand/Burm a border; community based services provided. | Randomized Controlled trial | CETA compared to wait list control. | Other common elements have been tested in the U.S. but the CETA version for LMIC was first tested in this trial and the Weiss et al. | Adults | Lay community members; no formal training in MH and limited education | Trauma, Depression Functioning Anxiety | Burmese refugees subject to arrests and deportation |
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| Weiss et al., (submitted) | Southern Iraq; community based integrated into MoH clinics | Parallel Randomized controlled trial |
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CPT has multiple RCT from the U.S. | Adults, | Community health workers in the MoH system; no previous MH training; educated | Trauma, Depression Functioning Anxiety | Ongoing bombings, road closures and political events throughout the study. |
| See above note on CETA | ||||||||
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| Bolton et al., (submitted) | Northern Iraq; community based interated into MoH clinics | Randomized controlled trial | IPT, BA, and a psychosocial intervention designed by the NGO | IPT and BA have multiple RCT from the U.S. | Adults | Community health workers in the MoH system, no previous MH training, educated | Trauma, Depression Functioning Anxiety | |
| The psychosocial intervention has not been tested. | ||||||||
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| Jordans et al, 2013 | Sri Lanka, Burundi, Indonesia, Sudan, Nepal | Multiple designs (including CRTs; n=1 series) | Classroom Based Intervention (CBI) | CBI has had multiple trials across multiple countries | Children | Community volunteers; Teachers | Multiple | Ongoing community violence throughout or in the period prior to the program |
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| Bolton et al., 2007 | Northern Uganda | Randomized controlled trial | IPT compared to Creative Play and WLC | IPT has multiple RCT in U.S. | Adolescents | Community members; no formal training in MH and limited education | Trauma, Internalizing problems, Externalizing | Internally displaced persons camp; Ongoing violence in/around the area. |
| Creative play has not been tested | ||||||||
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| Bonilla-Escobar et al. 2014 (report to USAID) | Buenaventura and Quibdo, Colombia | Randomized controlled trial |
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See above on CETA | Adults | Community members; no formal training in MH and limited education | Trauma, Depression Functioning Anxiety, Anger | Most affected areas by displacement in Colombia, armed strikes during the program, and unofficial armed conflict for territory. |
| Community intervention has not previously been tested | ||||||||
Caption:
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Behavioral Activation (BA)
Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA)
Wait List Control (WLC)
Classroom Based Intervention (CBI)