Interventions for depression symptoms among adolescent survivors of war and displacement in northern Uganda: a randomized controlled trial.

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Published in JAMA on August 01, 2007

Authors

Paul Bolton1, Judith Bass, Theresa Betancourt, Liesbeth Speelman, Grace Onyango, Kathleen F Clougherty, Richard Neugebauer, Laura Murray, Helen Verdeli

Author Affiliations

1: Applied Mental Health Research Group, Center for International Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. pbolton@jhsph.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Study of Treatments for Depression Among Displaced Adolescents in Northern Uganda. | NCT00280319

Pilot Feasibility Trial of the Family Strengthening Intervention in Rwanda (FSI-R) | NCT01509573

Trial of the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI) | NCT01684488

Sub-Trial of the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI): Treatment of Control Group and Addition of Stress Biomarkers | NCT02128568

Building and Sustaining Interventions for Children: Task-sharing Mental Health Care in Low-resource Settings (BASIC) | NCT03243396

Increasing Access to Evidence-based Treatments for Depression | NCT04619615

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