With a mandate to increase the capacity to support global mental health, this is the first meta-analysis with the aim of examining where the field stands in understanding the effectiveness of psychological interventions created for, and implemented with, children in African countries who experience stress and trauma. Searches for empirical randomized-controlled trials of psychological interventions with children in African countries were carried out in major databases. The current study combines the results of 26 studies to examine overall effectiveness of these interventions and goes on to examine the moderators of effectiveness looking at eight different potential moderators. Two moderators reach the level of significance, namely that mental health outcomes and age moderate the effectiveness of an intervention. Interventions targeting trauma were most effective. Some instances in which the null hypothesis could not be rejected turned out to be positive for the purposes of this study e.g. the education level of facilitators and the format of the group, do not show a significant impact on the effect size of these interventions. This study concludes that the creation and development of psychological interventions for African children should continue, and potential moderating variables should be more closely examined.

为了提高支持全球心理健康的能力，这是第一个元分析，目的是检查该领域在理解为非洲国家有压力的儿童创建和实施的心理干预措施的有效性方面的地位和创伤。在主要数据库中搜索了非洲国家儿童心理干预的经验随机对照试验。当前的研究结合了 26 项研究的结果，以检查这些干预措施的整体有效性，并继续通过八种不同的潜在调节器来检查有效性调节器。两个调节器达到显着水平，即心理健康结果和年龄调节干预的有效性。针对创伤的干预措施最为有效。一些不能拒绝零假设的实例被证明对于本研究的目的是积极的，例如促进者的教育水平和小组的形式，对这些干预的效果大小没有显着影响。这项研究的结论是，应继续为非洲儿童创造和发展心理干预措施，并应更仔细地检查潜在的调节变量。