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Friendship Bench for Women Who Use Methamphetamine in Vietnam

Sponsor: Hanoi Medical University • ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06789523

Registry updated: 2026-09-16
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Description

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.

Interventions

  • Friendship Bench (Behavioral)
    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 (Behavioral)
    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.

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult women (\>=18 years old) * Moderate or greater risk for meth use (ASSIST ≥ 4) * Moderate or greater CMD symptom severity (Depression ≥ 10, Anxiety ≥ 8, and/or Stress ≥ 15 on DASS-21) Exclusion Criteria: * Severe psychotic disorders or other interfering problems that require specialty care; * Inability to understand study procedures by the research team's judgment.

Conditions

Methamphetamine Use Common Mental Disorders (CMD)

Locations

  • Friendship Bench & Lighthouse — Haiphong, Hai Phong, Vietnam
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