ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2024
Improving psychosocial well-being and parenting practices among refugees in Uganda: Results of the journey of life effectiveness trial.
Article in Global mental health (Cambridge, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Forced displacement, household composition, and mental health: how gendered family structures relate to adolescent girls' well-being.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- A scoping review of outcomes and implementation challenges of mental health care interventions among conflict-affected populations in Africa.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- Mental health interventions for refugees in Africa: a scoping review of implementation and motivations.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Data-driven supervision to optimize the effectiveness of proactive case detection for mental health care among children: a proof-of-concept study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Child public health interventions for conflict-affected populations: A systematic review.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Erratum: Improving psychosocial well-being and parenting practices among refugees in Uganda: Results of the journey of life effectiveness trial - CORRIGENDUM.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Caregivers play a critical role in mediating the impacts of forced displacement on children; however, humanitarian programming remains hampered by a lack of evidence-based programming. We present findings from an evaluation of a group-based curriculum delivered over the course of 12 sessions, journey of life (JoL). A waitlist-control quasi-experimental design was implemented in the Kiryandongo refugee settlement (intervention n = 631, control n = 676). Caregiver mental distress, measured using the Kessler-6, was the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes included (a) functioning, (b) social support and (c) caregiving attitudes and behaviors. Propensity score matching (PSM) and Cohen's d estimates were used to examine the intervention effects. According to our primary PSM analysis, JoL led to significant improvements in mental distress (coef.: 2.33;
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