Family RelationsMFHS-CRTNCT07621705
Multifamily Healing Spaces for Family Resilience in Rwanda
A study testing Multifamily Healing Spaces in people with Family Relations and Psychological Trauma, run by Alexandros Lordos, PhD at 5 sites in Rwanda.
Trial summary
This cluster-randomized waitlist-control trial evaluated Multifamily Healing Spaces (MFHS), a culturally adapted behavioral family intervention for genocide-affected communities in Rwanda. Community members across five districts were screened through a staged triage process. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 12 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Family Relations, Psychological Trauma, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- What is being tested?
- Multifamily Healing Spaces
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 319 participants
- Where
- 5 sitesRwanda
- Study dates
- 28 Apr 2023to 15 Sep 2023
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 12 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Member of a family living in or connected to a selected MFHS-eligible cluster/cell in one of the five study districts in Rwanda.
- Aged 12 years or older.
- Family invited because at least one screened family member met the staged MFHS criterion for family communication difficulties after higher-priority clinical and individual mental-health triage.
- Able and willing to participate in baseline assessment and, if allocated to MFHS, family/group sessions.
- Written informed consent, assent, and/or caregiver permission obtained according to age and local ethics requirements.
Who cannot join
- Individuals with suicidality, psychosis, or severe substance-use flags were routed for clinical interview or hospital referral rather than MFHS as first-line allocation.
- Individuals meeting higher-priority individual mental-health criteria were routed to Resilience-Oriented Therapy before the MFHS screening stage.
- Individuals or families unable to provide consent/assent or safely participate in group family sessions were not enrolled.
- Remaining individuals with social-conflict indicators after earlier stages were routed to sociotherapy rather than MFHS.
Trial locations and contacts
5 sites in 1 country.
5 sites in 1 country
Rwanda5 sites
Community and Health-Centre Settings, Ngoma District
Ngoma, Eastern Province
Community and Health-Centre Settings, Nyabihu District
Nyabihu, Western Province
Community and Health-Centre Settings, Nyagatare District
Nyagatare, Eastern Province
Community and Health-Centre Settings, Nyamagabe District
Nyamagabe, Southern Province
Community and Health-Centre Settings, Musanze District
Ruhengeri, Northern Province
About this study
Official title: The Effectiveness of Multi-Family Healing Spaces on Family Resilience and Mental Health Outcomes: A Multi-Site Cluster-Randomized Waitlist-Control Trial in Rwanda
This cluster-randomized waitlist-control trial evaluated Multifamily Healing Spaces (MFHS), a culturally adapted behavioral family intervention for genocide-affected communities in Rwanda. Community members across five districts were screened through a staged triage process. Individuals with acute or severe clinical concerns were routed to clinical referral, those with individual mental-health needs were prioritized for Resilience-Oriented Therapy, and families were invited to MFHS when at least one screened family member met criteria for family communication difficulties. Twenty eligible clusters were randomly selected and then allocated to MFHS or waitlist control. The baseline cohort included 319 family members aged 12 years or older. The trial tested whether MFHS improved family resilience, parenting, couple and youth family-system outcomes, and secondary mental health, psychosocial, community, and livelihood outcomes from baseline to immediate post-intervention endline.
Read the detailed description
MFHS is a group-based, trauma-informed, family-systems intervention developed for post-genocide Rwanda. It combines psychoeducation, structured dialogue, family communication and problem-solving exercises, parenting and couple-relational work, and youth voice and identity activities. The intervention was delivered in intergenerational, whole-family, parent-only, and youth-only formats. MFHS comprised 18 core 3-hour meeting occasions, with parent-only and youth-only sessions delivered in parallel, plus four planned follow-up sessions where relevant.
Participants were identified through a broader Rwanda societal-healing screening process. Screening was conducted at the individual level, but MFHS invitation occurred at the family level: if any screened individual met the MFHS family-communication criterion, that person's family was invited. The audited screening workbook contained 4,214 adult/community screening records. After referral/triage for severe clinical flags and other staged interventions, 839 screened individuals were staged to MFHS. At the cell level, 56 eligible cells had enough staged MFHS-screened individuals to form a group; those cells contained 794 staged MFHS-screened individuals. Twenty trial clusters were randomly selected from the eligible cells and then allocated to MFHS or waitlist control. The final baseline cohort included 319 family members in 20 clusters: 167 in MFHS clusters and 152 in waitlist-control clusters.
The primary manuscript analysis is a baseline-cohort intention-to-treat analysis. All baseline-assessed participants were retained in their final fielded cluster allocation. Missing endline outcomes for 36 participants were handled through multiple imputation. Effects were estimated with baseline-adjusted cluster-level Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) weighted by baseline cluster size, with complete-case and unweighted analyses retained as sensitivity checks.
- Conditions
- Family Relations, Psychological Trauma, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Parent-Child Relation
- Being tested
- Multifamily Healing Spaces
- Keywords
- Rwanda, post-genocide, societal healing, family resilience, family systems, multifamily therapy, cluster randomized trial, intergenerational trauma
- Medical subject headings
- Psychological Trauma, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Historical Trauma
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Multifamily Healing SpacesBehavioural
MFHS is a culturally adapted, group-based family intervention for genocide-affected communities in Rwanda. It includes 18 core 3-hour meeting occasions in intergenerational, whole-family, parent-only, and youth-only formats. Sessions focus on trauma-informed psychoeducation, family communication and problem solving, shared meaning-making, parenting, couple relationships, youth voice, and family and community resilience. Groups were facilitated by trained facilitators, including a therapist and community volunteer, with facilitator training and supervision.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Multifamily Healing Spaces | Experimental | Clusters allocated to Multifamily Healing Spaces (MFHS) received the behavioral family intervention during the trial evaluation period. MFHS was delivered to families in group formats using intergenerational, whole-family, parent-only, and youth-only sessions. Receives: Behavioral: Multifamily Healing Spaces |
| Waitlist Control | No intervention | Clusters allocated to waitlist control did not receive MFHS during the baseline-to-endline evaluation period. Families were invited to receive MFHS after the evaluation period. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in Family Resilience
Family resilience was measured with the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire. The local version included 32 items forming belief systems, organization patterns, and communication/problem solving subscales. Subscale scores range from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating stronger family resilience processes.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Change in Parenting Practices
Parenting practices were measured with the Parenting Practices Questionnaire. The local version included 20 items forming authoritative warmth/involvement, authoritative democratic participation, and authoritarian verbal hostility subscales. Subscale scores range from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating more of the named parenting behavior.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Change in Parent Couple Functioning
Parent couple functioning was measured with parent-only measures of dyadic adjustment, dyadic happiness, sexual relationship decision-making power, and preference for boys over girls. Dyadic adjustment domains range from 0 to 3 and dyadic happiness ranges from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating better couple functioning. Sexual relationship decision-making power ranges from 1 to 3, with higher scores indicating more respondent decision-making authority. Preference for boys over girls ranges from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating stronger preference for boys over girls.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Change in Youth Family-System Functioning
Youth family-system functioning was measured with youth-only family enmeshment and personal accountability scores. Family enmeshment was measured with seven items ranging from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating greater over-involvement or lower differentiation. Personal accountability was measured with eight items ranging from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater youth responsibility and accountability.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Secondary outcomes (6)
Change in Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms
Post-traumatic stress symptoms were measured with four genocide-adapted items from the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Items were rated from 0 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater post-traumatic stress symptoms.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Borderline Traits
Borderline traits were measured with the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder. The 10 yes/no items are summed to a total score ranging from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating more borderline-personality features.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Aggression
Aggression was measured with physical and verbal aggression items from the Aggression Questionnaire. Items were averaged to scores ranging from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating greater aggression.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Forgiveness and Community Relations
Forgiveness and community relations were measured with forgiveness of others, social cohesion, perceived community threat, and intergenerational harmony scores. Forgiveness of others used retained items derived from the Heartland Forgiveness Scale and ranges from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater forgiveness. Social cohesion ranges from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater social cohesion. Perceived community threat ranges from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater perceived threat. Intergenerational harmony ranges from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating stronger intergenerational harmony.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Socioemotional Skills
Socioemotional skills were measured with locally developed emotional wellbeing, collaboration, and self-management subscales. Subscale scores range from 1 to 4. In the scoring, higher scores indicate greater socioemotional difficulty, so lower scores indicate improvement.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Livelihood and Household Economic Functioning
Livelihood and household economic functioning were measured with parent-only economic security, partner economic support, and food-insecurity indicators. Economic security and partner economic support scores range from 0 to 3, with higher scores indicating greater economic security or partner support. Short-term Food Security Consumption Coping Strategy Index scores range from 0 to 84 and long-term scores range from 0 to 12, with higher scores indicating worse food insecurity.
Measured: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted2 Jun 2026
- Study start28 Apr 2023
- Primary completion15 Sep 2023
- Study completion15 Sep 2023
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (2)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Family RelationsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- Cluster-randomized parallel-group waitlist-control trial. Twenty eligible community/cell clusters were randomly selected from 56 MFHS-eligible cells and then randomly allocated to MFHS or waitlist control. Outcomes were assessed at baseline and immediate post-intervention endline.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 319 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Alexandros Lordos, PhD
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development, University of Rwanda, Interpeace
- Responsible party
- Sponsor-investigator, Alexandros Lordos, PhD, University of Cyprus
- Investigators
- Alexandros Lordos, PhD, Principal investigator, University of Cyprus
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07621705
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- MFHS-CRT-RWA-2023
- Other IDs
- 122/RNEC/2023
- Acronym
- MFHS-CRT
- Status last verified
- May 2026
- First submitted
- 20 May 2026
- Last updated
- 2 Jun 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: De-identified participant-level data underlying the manuscript analyses may be shared with qualified researchers on reasonable request to the first author, subject to ethics, data-protection, and partner-organization approvals.
Publications
Lordos, A., Interayamahanga, R., Kayitare, F., Dukuzumuremyi, E., Mahoro, M., Mwiza, J., & Mbanda, J. (2026). Establishing multi-stakeholder alliances to promote societal healing and resilience in post-genocide Rwanda. In S. Clarke-Habibi & C. Reimann (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding (pp. 411-424). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003536970-33
Nikolaou, K., Lordos, A., Rutembesa, E., Ioannou, M., Dukuzumuremyi, E., Christou, G., Meade, A., Karayianni, E., Anastasiou, E., Guest, A., Sezibera, V., Panayiotou, O., Throstur, B., & Kayitare, F. (2025). Multifamily Healing Spaces: Development of a family-based intervention for recovery and resilience in Rwanda. Intervention, 23(1), 52-62. https://doi.org/10.4103/intv.intv_16_24
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 2 Jun 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effectiveness of Multi-Family Healing Spaces on Family Resilience and Mental Health Outcomes: A Multi-Site Cluster-Randomized Waitlist-Control Trial in Rwanda
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07621705
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- MFHS-CRT / MFHS-CRT-RWA-2023
- Conditions
- Family Relations, Psychological Trauma, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Parent-Child Relation
- Keywords
- Rwanda, post-genocide, societal healing, family resilience, family systems, multifamily therapy, cluster randomized trial, intergenerational trauma
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 319 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Alexandros Lordos, PhDUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development, University of Rwanda, Interpeace
- Study start
- 28 Apr 2023 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 15 Sep 2023 (actual)
- Study completion
- 15 Sep 2023 (actual)
- First posted
- 2 Jun 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This cluster-randomized waitlist-control trial evaluated Multifamily Healing Spaces (MFHS), a culturally adapted behavioral family intervention for genocide-affected communities in Rwanda. Community members across five districts were screened through a staged triage process. Individuals with acute or severe clinical concerns were routed to clinical referral, those with individual mental-health needs were prioritized for Resilience-Oriented Therapy, and families were invited to MFHS when at least one screened family member met criteria for family communication difficulties. Twenty eligible clusters were randomly selected and then allocated to MFHS or waitlist control. The baseline cohort included 319 family members aged 12 years or older. The trial tested whether MFHS improved family resilience, parenting, couple and youth family-system outcomes, and secondary mental health, psychosocial, community, and livelihood outcomes from baseline to immediate post-intervention endline.
Detailed description
MFHS is a group-based, trauma-informed, family-systems intervention developed for post-genocide Rwanda. It combines psychoeducation, structured dialogue, family communication and problem-solving exercises, parenting and couple-relational work, and youth voice and identity activities. The intervention was delivered in intergenerational, whole-family, parent-only, and youth-only formats. MFHS comprised 18 core 3-hour meeting occasions, with parent-only and youth-only sessions delivered in parallel, plus four planned follow-up sessions where relevant.
Participants were identified through a broader Rwanda societal-healing screening process. Screening was conducted at the individual level, but MFHS invitation occurred at the family level: if any screened individual met the MFHS family-communication criterion, that person's family was invited. The audited screening workbook contained 4,214 adult/community screening records. After referral/triage for severe clinical flags and other staged interventions, 839 screened individuals were staged to MFHS. At the cell level, 56 eligible cells had enough staged MFHS-screened individuals to form a group; those cells contained 794 staged MFHS-screened individuals. Twenty trial clusters were randomly selected from the eligible cells and then allocated to MFHS or waitlist control. The final baseline cohort included 319 family members in 20 clusters: 167 in MFHS clusters and 152 in waitlist-control clusters.
The primary manuscript analysis is a baseline-cohort intention-to-treat analysis. All baseline-assessed participants were retained in their final fielded cluster allocation. Missing endline outcomes for 36 participants were handled through multiple imputation. Effects were estimated with baseline-adjusted cluster-level Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) weighted by baseline cluster size, with complete-case and unweighted analyses retained as sensitivity checks.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Cluster-randomized parallel-group waitlist-control trial. Twenty eligible community/cell clusters were randomly selected from 56 MFHS-eligible cells and then randomly allocated to MFHS or waitlist control. Outcomes were assessed at baseline and immediate post-intervention endline.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Multifamily Healing Spaces | Experimental | Behavioral: Multifamily Healing SpacesClusters allocated to Multifamily Healing Spaces (MFHS) received the behavioral family intervention during the trial evaluation period. MFHS was delivered to families in group formats using intergenerational, whole-family, parent-only, and youth-only sessions. |
| Waitlist Control | No intervention | –Clusters allocated to waitlist control did not receive MFHS during the baseline-to-endline evaluation period. Families were invited to receive MFHS after the evaluation period. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 12 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (5 listed)
- Member of a family living in or connected to a selected MFHS-eligible cluster/cell in one of the five study districts in Rwanda.
- Aged 12 years or older.
- Family invited because at least one screened family member met the staged MFHS criterion for family communication difficulties after higher-priority clinical and individual mental-health triage.
- Able and willing to participate in baseline assessment and, if allocated to MFHS, family/group sessions.
- Written informed consent, assent, and/or caregiver permission obtained according to age and local ethics requirements.
Key exclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Individuals with suicidality, psychosis, or severe substance-use flags were routed for clinical interview or hospital referral rather than MFHS as first-line allocation.
- Individuals meeting higher-priority individual mental-health criteria were routed to Resilience-Oriented Therapy before the MFHS screening stage.
- Individuals or families unable to provide consent/assent or safely participate in group family sessions were not enrolled.
- Remaining individuals with social-conflict indicators after earlier stages were routed to sociotherapy rather than MFHS.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Multifamily Healing SpacesMFHS is a culturally adapted, group-based family intervention for genocide-affected communities in Rwanda. It includes 18 core 3-hour meeting occasions in intergenerational, whole-family, parent-only, and youth-only formats. Sessions focus on trauma-informed psychoeducation, family communication and problem solving, shared meaning-making, parenting, couple relationships, youth voice, and family and community resilience. Groups were facilitated by trained facilitators, including a therapist and community volunteer, with facilitator training and supervision. | Behavioural | Multifamily Healing Spaces |
Primary outcome
Change in Family Resilience
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Family resilience was measured with the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire. The local version included 32 items forming belief systems, organization patterns, and communication/problem solving subscales. Subscale scores range from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating stronger family resilience processes.
Change in Parenting Practices
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Parenting practices were measured with the Parenting Practices Questionnaire. The local version included 20 items forming authoritative warmth/involvement, authoritative democratic participation, and authoritarian verbal hostility subscales. Subscale scores range from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating more of the named parenting behavior.
Change in Parent Couple Functioning
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Parent couple functioning was measured with parent-only measures of dyadic adjustment, dyadic happiness, sexual relationship decision-making power, and preference for boys over girls. Dyadic adjustment domains range from 0 to 3 and dyadic happiness ranges from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating better couple functioning. Sexual relationship decision-making power ranges from 1 to 3, with higher scores indicating more respondent decision-making authority. Preference for boys over girls ranges from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating stronger preference for boys over girls.
Change in Youth Family-System Functioning
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months
Youth family-system functioning was measured with youth-only family enmeshment and personal accountability scores. Family enmeshment was measured with seven items ranging from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating greater over-involvement or lower differentiation. Personal accountability was measured with eight items ranging from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater youth responsibility and accountability.
6 secondary outcomes
Change in Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Borderline Traits
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Aggression
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Forgiveness and Community Relations
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Socioemotional Skills
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Change in Livelihood and Household Economic Functioning
Time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months.
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 2 Jun 2026.
- BackgroundLordos, A., Interayamahanga, R., Kayitare, F., Dukuzumuremyi, E., Mahoro, M., Mwiza, J., & Mbanda, J. (2026). Establishing multi-stakeholder alliances to promote societal healing and resilience in post-genocide Rwanda. In S. Clarke-Habibi & C. Reimann (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding (pp. 411-424). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003536970-33
- BackgroundNikolaou, K., Lordos, A., Rutembesa, E., Ioannou, M., Dukuzumuremyi, E., Christou, G., Meade, A., Karayianni, E., Anastasiou, E., Guest, A., Sezibera, V., Panayiotou, O., Throstur, B., & Kayitare, F. (2025). Multifamily Healing Spaces: Development of a family-based intervention for recovery and resilience in Rwanda. Intervention, 23(1), 52-62. https://doi.org/10.4103/intv.intv_16_24
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. De-identified participant-level data underlying the manuscript analyses may be shared with qualified researchers on reasonable request to the first author, subject to ethics, data-protection, and partner-organization approvals.
Related trials for Family Relations
Recruiting
A SMART Evaluation of an Adaptive Web-based AUD Treatment for Service Members and Their Partners
Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Use Disorder
Recruiting
Family Intervention for Black Teens With Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes, Family Relations
Active, not recruiting
Gender-Transformative Interventions and Normative Beliefs About Reproductive Decision-Making
Norm, Social, Autonomy
Not yet recruiting
Relational Music Therapy Procedural Support for Paediatric Patients and Families Facing Repeated Invasive Procedures
Paediatric, Invasive Procedure
Recruiting
Evaluation of a Family-centered Program for Problematic Gaming/Excessive Screen Use
Adolescent Behavior, Social Media Addiction
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Alexandros Lordos, PhD principal investigator
University of Cyprus
5 sites in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Multifamily Healing Spaces in people with Family Relations and Psychological Trauma, run by Alexandros Lordos, PhD at 5 sites in Rwanda.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 2 Jun 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 5 sites in Rwanda. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in Family Resilience (time frame: Baseline to immediate post-intervention endline, up to 5 months). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT07621705, which also lists 2 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 2 Jun 2026.