The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of the culturally adapted skills-training START NOW in youth migrant populations. The main question it aims to answer is: Is the culturally adapted skills training START NOW more effective than treatment as usual (TAU) in reducing mental health problems in migrants? Participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention group receiving the skills training START NOW Adapted or the control group receiving TAU. Researchers will compare both groups to see if START NOW Adapted is more effective than TAU in reducing mental health problems in migrants.
Being a migrant resettled in Switzerland temporarily or permanently
Aged between 14 and 18
Able to speak, read and understand one of the following languages: German, English, Turkish, Farsi, Dari, Ukrainian, Algerian Arabic or Pashto
Able to give informed consent as documented by signature
Suicidality assessed in self-report by the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R; total score > 6) and external report by telephone clarification
Planning to leave Switzerland in the next 6 months
Concurrent CBT-based skills-training similar to START NOW
Prof. Christina Stadler
Lead sponsor
University Psychiatric Clinics Basel
Sponsor institution