ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2022
Feasibility and acceptability of a multicomponent, group psychological intervention for adolescents with psychosocial distress in public schools of Pakistan: a feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT).
Article in Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) - A Skills Based Program to Address Psychosocial Distress Among Young Adolescents Studying in Public Schools of Pakistan. Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT)
Evaluating the Feasibility of a School-based Stepped Care Program for Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescents in Pakistan
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a School-based Stepped Care Treatment Model for Adolescent Depression in Pakistan
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- The World Health Organization's Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions: A Systematic Review on Current Evidence regarding Effectiveness and Implementation.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a group psychological intervention to reduce psychosocial distress in adolescents in Pakistan: a single-blind, cluster randomised controlled trial.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2024Trial
- Feasibility randomised controlled trial of the Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions psychological intervention with young adolescents in Lebanon.BMC psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Efficacy of Early Adolescent Skill for Emotions Intervention in Psychological Distress among Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Review
- Involving young people with lived experience in advancing mental health science: an exploratory qualitative study from Pakistan and India.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Facilitators and barriers to participation and scale-up of a non-specialist delivered psychological intervention for adolescents in low-resourced settings: a process evaluation.BMC public health · 2025Article
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundChild and adolescent mental health problems are a global public mental health priority. However, there is a lack of evidence-based scalable psychological interventions for adolescents living in low resource settings. This trial was designed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of delivering the World Health Organization's Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) intervention at public schools in a rural sub-district in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
methodsA two arm, single blinded, feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial with mixed-methods evaluation was conducted with 59 adolescents and their caregivers from 8 public schools. In the 4 intervention arm schools, 6 non-specialist facilitators delivered the culturally-adapted EASE group sessions to the adolescents (n = 29) and their caregivers with desired fidelity under the supervision of in-country supervisors.
resultsThe participation rate of adolescents in the intervention sessions was 83%. The intervention strategies were implemented by the adolescents. However, attending biweekly sessions at schools was challenging for caregivers with only 50% caregivers attending the sessions.
conclusionsThe results of this study support the feasibility and acceptability of delivering this culturally adapted intervention through non-specialist facilitators in school settings in Pakistan and pave the way to conduct a fully powered cluster randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of intervention to improve psychological outcomes in adolescents. Trial registration Trial registered with Clinicaltrials.gov prospectively; NCT04254393.
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