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The problem
Intervention: Amaka Amasanyufu, a 16-week manualized multiple family group intervention delivered by either trained parent peers or community healthcare workers
Who it was tested with: 636 school-going children and adolescents (aged not specified) with disruptive behavioral disorders in low-resource communities in Uganda; control n=243, MFG-PP n=194, MFG-CHW n=199.
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.
"We used longitudinal data from 636 children positive for DBDs: (1) Control condition, 10 schools, n = 243; (2) MFG delivered via parent peers (MFG-PP), eight schools, n = 194 and; (3) MFG delivered via community healthcare workers (MFG-CHW), eight schools, n = 199 from the SMART Africa-Uganda study (2016-2022)... We estimated three-level linear mixed-effects models and pairwise comparisons at 6 months postintervention." This is a rigorous cluster-randomized controlled trial design with randomization at the school level and measurement of outcomes in all three groups at multiple time points, meeting criteria for experimental evidence.
Study was limited to school-going children in Uganda; long-term follow-up beyond 6 months post-intervention was not assessed; comparison between the two delivery methods did not show differences, limiting ability to determine the most efficient approach.
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 2 countries
