Efficacy of a World Health Organization–Guided Self-Help Intervention for Reducing Psychological Distress in Afghan Refugees: Randomized Controlled Trial

Angela Nickerson   ¹ , PhD ;   Gulsah Kurt   ¹ , PhD ;   Philippa Specker   ¹ , PhD ;   Anna Camilleri   ¹ , BA ;   Dessy Susanty   ¹ , MA ;   Rizka Argadianti   ^{1, 2} , BA ;   David Keegan   ³ , BSW ;   Randy Nandyatama   ⁴ , PhD ;   Atika Yuanita   ² , BA ;   Angga Putra Reynady Hermawan   ² , BA ;   Richard A Bryant   ¹ , PhD ;   Meaghan O'Donnell   ⁵ , PhD ;   Mahdi Rafei   ⁶ ;   Rahmatullah Bayani   ⁶ ;   Belinda J Liddell   ^{1, 7} , PhD

¹ School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

² SUAKA Indonesian Civil Society Association for Refugee Rights Protection, Jakarta, Indonesia

³ Excelsia College, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

⁴ Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

⁵ Phoenix Australia, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

⁶ Refugee Learning Nest, Bogor, Indonesia

⁷ School of Psychological Sciences, University of Newcastle Australia, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia