Use of the creating opportunities for parent empowerment programme to decrease mental health problems in Ugandan children surviving severe malaria: a randomized controlled trial.

This behavioural intervention for caregivers and their children admitted with severe malaria had no effect on the child's mental health outcomes at 6 months. Further studies need to develop interventions for mental health problems after severe malaria in children with longer follow-up time. Trail registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03432039.