Microfinance Intervention to Improve Health of Trauma Survivors in DRC

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
• Main ID: NCT02008708
• Date of registration: 07/10/2013
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
• Public title: Microfinance Intervention to Improve Health of Trauma Survivors in DRC
• Scientific title: Microfinance Intervention to Improve Health of Trauma Survivors in DRC
• Date of first enrolment: January 2011
• Target sample size: 878
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02008708
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Other. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Congo

Contacts

• Name: Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN
• Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- household in participating 10 villages with at least one member:

- 16 years or older,

- male or female

- interest in animal husbandry microfinance,

- vulnerable, including survivor of sexual violence, widow, single mother

- children under age 18 in the home.

Exclusion Criteria:

- do not live in villages included in study



Age minimum: 16 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Multiple Trauma

Mental Disorders

Intervention(s)

Other: Delayed Control Group

Behavioral: Livestock Microfinance

Primary Outcome(s)

Change from baseline Mental health distress at 18 months [Time Frame: Baseline and 18 months post baseline]

Secondary ID(s)

R01MD006075

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)