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Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

The Effect of Psychological First Aid Training on Knowledge and Understanding about Psychosocial Support Principles: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.

Marit Sijbrandij, Rebecca Horn, Rebecca Esliker, Fiona O'May, Relinde Reiffers, Leontien Ruttenberg, Kimberly Stam, Joop de Jong, Alastair Ager

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Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05033210 (Prevention of Mental Health Problems Among Persons Without Personal Housing in the Context of the COVID-19 Epidemic), which is not on this map. Cited by 54 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05033210 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Prevention of Mental Health Problems Among Persons Without Personal Housing in the Context of the COVID-19 Epidemic: a Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorANRS, Emerging Infectious DiseasesRan2022 to 2023Enrolled210ConditionsPsychological Distress, Quality of Life, Psychosocial InterventionArmsPsychological First Aid (PFA), Care as Usual (CAU), Doing What Matters in Times of Stress (DWM), Problem Management Plus (PM+)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. A Rapid Realist Review of Group Psychological First Aid for Humanitarian Workers and Volunteers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  20. Psychological first aid in the intensive care unit.World journal of critical care medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Marit SijbrandijDepartment of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5430-9810
Rebecca HornInstitute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9869-544X
Rebecca EslikerDepartment of Counselling Psychology, University of Makeni, Freetown, Makeni PO Box 2, Northern Province, Sierra Leone.
Fiona O'MayInstitute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK.
Relinde ReiffersARQ International, ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, 1112 XE Diemen, The Netherlands.
Leontien RuttenbergInternational Medical Relief Services (IMRES), 8200 AE Lelystad, The Netherlands.
Kimberly StamARQ International, ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, 1112 XE Diemen, The Netherlands.
Joop de JongAmsterdam University Medical Centre, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Alastair AgerInstitute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK.

Funding

Department of HealthWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychological first aid (PFA) is a world-wide implemented approach to helping people affected by an emergency, disaster, or other adverse event. Controlled evaluations of PFA's training effects are lacking. We evaluated the effectiveness of a one-day PFA training on the acquisition and retention of knowledge of appropriate responses and skills in the acute aftermath of adversity in Peripheral Health Units (PHUs) in post-Ebola Sierra Leone. Secondary outcomes were professional quality of life, confidence in supporting a distressed person, and professional attitude. PHUs in Sierra Leone (

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DisastersAdultDelivery of Health CareFemaleFirst AidHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth PersonnelHumansMaleMiddle AgedPsychotherapyQuality of LifeSierra LeoneSurveys and Questionnaireshumanitarian assistancemental health and psychosocial supportpreventionpsychological first aidrandomized controlled trialtraining classification

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PMID31940865
PMCPMC7013432

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