ASHA Bangladesh--An Integrated Intervention to Address Poverty and Depression

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

660

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 1, 2024

Primary Completion Date

November 30, 2027

Study Completion Date

November 30, 2027

Conditions
DepressionEconomic Vulnerability
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Manualized Group Based Psychotherapy

Manualized Group Based Psychotherapy. Adapted from the World Health Organization (WHO) Problem Management Plus (PM+) intervention, this intervention includes behavioral activation, enhancing social support, and problem management.

OTHER

Poverty Alleviation

Modeled on the well-known Graduation Program, a poverty alleviation strategy widely used in low income countries, this intervention includes an asset transfer (agricultural animals), financial literacy education, a 6 month stipend, savings accounts, veterinary support, feed, and agricultural training

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

RECRUITING

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

OTHER

collaborator

Georgetown University

OTHER

collaborator

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

collaborator

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

OTHER

lead

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

OTHER