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The problem
Intervention: 16-week manualized multiple family group intervention
Who it was tested with: 317 school-going adolescent girls aged 14-17 in southwestern Uganda, recruited from senior one and senior two classes across 12 secondary schools.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Attendance data from 16 sessions were used to identify the heterogeneity of intervention engagement using latent class analysis modeling. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess the association between predisposing, enabling, need factors, and mental health utilization patterns." This describes a cross-sectional analytical approach examining factors associated with service utilization patterns within an intervention embedded in a larger trial, but the study does not evaluate whether the intervention itself improved mental health outcomes.
The study only measures engagement with the intervention and its association with family composition, not clinical outcomes or changes in mental health status. The analysis does not examine whether attendance differences led to different mental health benefits.
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 1 country
