Group-integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT) to Aid Communities' Reintegration of Former Terrorists in Nigeria: A Randomised Control Trial

Launched by TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY · Nov 28, 2022

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The main question it aims to answer are:

• What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with Gi-CBT to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of of former Boko Haram terrorists' members and their families.into society?

Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Group integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Gi-CBT). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orient...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. community members who had previous experience of trauma as a result of Boko Haram atrocities, score 5 and above for the culturally-adapted Trauma Screening Questionnaire (Brewinn et al., 2002)
• • 2. are aged 18+ years and above
• • 3. are residents of the designated areas including Bornu (Maiduguri), and its environs.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • those not meeting the study inclusion criteria will be excluded.