Sibling-Support for Adolescent Girls

Forcibly displaced adolescents face increased risks for mental illness and distress, with adolescent girls disproportionately affected in part due to heightened gender inequity. Although the family unit has the potential to promote healthy development in adolescents, few family interventions have em...

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Published inPloS one Vol. 19; no. 5; p. e0303588
Main Authors Seff, Ilana, Deitch, Julianne, Harker Roa, Arturo, Rodriguez, Carolina, Andia, Tatiana, Ariza Pena, Tamaity, Stark, Lindsay
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Public Library of Science 31.05.2024
Subjects
Child development
Child psychopathology
Depression, Mental
Domestic relations
Family
Mediation
Mental health
Teenage girls
Nigeria
Colombia
Venezuela
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Summary:Forcibly displaced adolescents face increased risks for mental illness and distress, with adolescent girls disproportionately affected in part due to heightened gender inequity. Although the family unit has the potential to promote healthy development in adolescents, few family interventions have employed a gender transformative approach or included male siblings to maximize benefits for adolescent girls. This study will assess a whole-family and gender transformative intervention-Sibling Support for Adolescent Girls in Emergencies (SSAGE)-to prevent mental health disorders among adolescent girls in Colombia who were recently and forcibly displaced from Venezuela. The study will employ a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation pilot randomized control trial (RCT) to test the program's effectiveness to explore determinants of implementation to establish the feasibility, acceptability, and fidelity of SSAGE. To address these aims, we will enroll 180 recently arrived, forcibly displaced adolescent girls in an RCT and examine the program's effectiveness in the prevention of mental illness (through reduction in anxiety, depression, interpersonal sensitivity, and somatization symptoms) one-month post-intervention. We will use contextually adapted to collect data on the hypothesized mechanistic pathways, including family attachment, gender-equitable family functioning, self-esteem, and coping strategies. The implementation evaluation will employ mixed methods to assess the program's feasibility, acceptability, fidelity, and barriers and facilitators to successful implementation.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0303588