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Friendship Bench for Women Who Use Methamphetamine in Vietnam
Sponsor: Hanoi Medical University
Summary
The high comorbidity of mental health issues and meth use in women worsens both their mental health and meth use outcomes. The study team proposes to evaluate the potential of Friendship Bench to be used as a low-threshold, task-shifting mental health intervention among women who use methamphetamine in Vietnam - a lower-middle-income country. The study will provide preliminary data for a R01 trial testing the effectiveness Friendship Bench to improve mental health and methamphetamine use outcomes among women who use methamphetamine in Vietnam.
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
100
Start Date
2025-06-11
Completion Date
2029-08-31
Last Updated
2025-08-08
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Friendship Bench
The Friendship Bench model comprises 6 weekly, individual sessions with trained peer workers in addition to the usual care. Peer workers will help participants identify problems, outline potential solutions, and implement selected solutions. The adaptation of Friendship Bench for Vietnamese methadone patients made revisions, such as removing the 'Belief in supernatural powers' section, replacing the Shona Symptom Questionnaire with DASS-21, and adding meth use. But this adaptation removed women-focused content on pregnancy and postpartum depression that we plan to include.
Usual psychiatric care
Usual care includes monthly check-ups by peer workers, referral to hospital-based psychiatric services or other available mental health services if needed. This usual care might surpass standard psychiatric care in other provinces given that peer workers in Haiphong have been well trained on case management skills.
Locations (1)
Friendship Bench & Lighthouse
Haiphong, Hai Phong, Vietnam