<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">O'Callaghan, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Branham, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shannon, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Betancourt, T. S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dempster, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McMullen, J.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A pilot study of a family focused, psychosocial intervention with war-exposed youth at risk of attack and abduction in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Child Abuse Negl</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">*Social Behavior</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">*Warfare</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abduction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adolescent</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Child</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crime/*psychology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Democratic Republic of the Congo</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Family Therapy/*methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Family/*psychology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Internalising symptoms</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pilot Projects</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Post-traumatic stress symptoms</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Psychosocial</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rural Health</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Treatment Outcome</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Violence/psychology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">War</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">youth</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jul</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">38</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1197-207</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1873-7757 (Electronic)&lt;br/&gt;0145-2134 (Linking)</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rural communities in the Haut-Uele Province of northern Democratic Republic of Congo live in constant danger of attack and/or abduction by units of the Lord's Resistance Army operating in the region. This pilot study sought to develop and evaluate a community-participative psychosocial intervention involving life skills and relaxation training and Mobile Cinema screenings with this war-affected population living under current threat. 159 war-affected children and young people (aged 7-18) from the villages of Kiliwa and Li-May in north-eastern DR Congo took part in this study. In total, 22% of participants had been abduction previously while 73% had a family member abducted. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress reactions, internalising problems, conduct problems and pro-social behaviour were assessed by blinded interviewers at pre- and post-intervention and at 3-month follow-up. Participants were randomised (with an accompanying caregiver) to 8 sessions of a group-based, community-participative, psychosocial intervention (n=79) carried out by supervised local, lay facilitators or a wait-list control group (n=80). Average seminar attendance rates were high: 88% for participants and 84% for caregivers. Drop-out was low: 97% of participants were assessed at post-intervention and 88% at 3 month follow-up. At post-test, participants reported significantly fewer symptoms of post-traumatic stress reactions compared to controls (Cohen's d=0.40). At 3 month follow up, large improvements in internalising symptoms and moderate improvements in pro-social scores were reported, with caregivers noting a moderate to large decline in conduct problems among the young people. Trial Registration clinicalTrials.gov, Identifier: NCT01542398.</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">24636358</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">O'Callaghan, Paul&lt;br/&gt;Branham, Lindsay&lt;br/&gt;Shannon, Ciaran&lt;br/&gt;Betancourt, Theresa S&lt;br/&gt;Dempster, Martin&lt;br/&gt;McMullen, John&lt;br/&gt;eng&lt;br/&gt;Randomized Controlled Trial&lt;br/&gt;Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't&lt;br/&gt;England&lt;br/&gt;2014/03/19 06:00&lt;br/&gt;Child Abuse Negl. 2014 Jul;38(7):1197-207. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.02.004. Epub 2014 Mar 15.</style></notes><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">School of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.&lt;br/&gt;Programme Director, Central Africa at Discover the Journey, Senior Producer at Discover the Journey, USA.&lt;br/&gt;Child Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.</style></auth-address></record></records></xml>