Islamic trauma healing (ITH): A scalable, community-based program for trauma: Cluster randomized control trial design and method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Somalia has long been in a state of humanitarian crisis; trauma-related mental health needs are extremely high. Access to state-of-the-art mental health care is limited. Islamic Trauma Healing (ITH) is a manualized mosque-based, lay-led group intervention aimed at healing the individual and communal mental wounds of war and refugee trauma. The 6-session intervention combines Islamic principles with empirically-supported exposure and cognitive restructuring principles for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ITH reduces training time, uses a train the trainers (TTT) model, and relies on local partnerships embedded within the strong communal mosque infrastructure.

Methods

We will conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized control trial (RCT) in the So

SUBMITTER: Zoellner LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10784141 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature