Background
emotional disorders, depression, adversity, anxiety
RECRUITMENT
At the end of 2021, almost 90 million people were forcibly displaced; 27 million refugees, and more than 40% children [The majority (83%) of refugees are hosted in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) [To overcome this treatment gap, effort has shifted towards scalable psychological interventions that can be delivered by trained and supervised non-specialist providers, following a task-sharing approach [Although WHO guidelines recommend psychological interventions such as cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescents with emotional disorders [WHO recently developed the Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) intervention to reduce psychological distress for adolescents aged 10–14 years who are living in adversity and experiencing significant internalizing symptoms (e.g. anxiety or depression) [We previously conducted a cultural adaptation of the EASE intervention for the context of Lebanon [1) Determine recruitment, screening, completion, and retention rates for the EASE programme and follow up assessments2) Evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of intervention delivery of EASE by trained non-specialists3) Assess feasibility of outcome measures and their psychometric properties, and explore trends in changes from baseline to endline within each group, and between groups4) Assess feasibility and safety of trial procedures such as randomization, blinding of assessors, contamination, and occurrence and monitoring of adverse eventsThis feasibility trial and a simultaneous study in Jordan [